Comments on: Privacy Compliance – Disclosing Health Information Has its Consequences http://www.effortlesshr.com/blog/legal-issues/privacy-compliance-disclosing-health-information-consequences/ A comprehensive human resources blog with a focus on small business labor laws and employee issues. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:47:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Brian Kurtz@Umbrella Stroller http://www.effortlesshr.com/blog/legal-issues/privacy-compliance-disclosing-health-information-consequences/#comment-5669 Brian Kurtz@Umbrella Stroller Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:31:03 +0000 http://www.effortlesshr.com/blog/?p=119#comment-5669 This is a serious issue and with digital copies of things flying around, violations of privacy can happen fast. Someone in my office recently was notified by email that they had uploaded a scanned copy of a record to an openly accessible folder on their company website! It could be downloaded by anyone. I dunno the reason behind putting it out there, but it was a scary oversight. This is a serious issue and with digital copies of things flying around, violations of privacy can happen fast.

Someone in my office recently was notified by email that they had uploaded a scanned copy of a record to an openly accessible folder on their company website! It could be downloaded by anyone.

I dunno the reason behind putting it out there, but it was a scary oversight.

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