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Re: More info on Department of Veterans Affairs breach
From: Beth Givens <bgivens () privacyrights org>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 11:57:18 -0700
The VA's information page is woefully inadequate. The VA's web page is woefully and shamefully lacking fyi. You might be interested in our tip sheet for veterans: http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/VABreach.htm We are going to add a section to our tip sheet over the weekend that suggests advocacy actions vets can take re: legislation, HIPAA complaints, and Privacy Act violations. Beth At 11:43 AM 5/26/2006, lyger wrote:
(Not to over-do the VA story, but here are a couple of links I hadn't known of before today) General information about the breach (including the phrase "extra vigilant" used four or five times): http://firstgov.gov/veteransinfo.shtml $50,000 reward offered for information leading to recovery of the stolen hardware: http://www.firstgov.gov/veterans_reward_offered.pdf _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/errata/dataloss/
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