Medical Files Blackmail
How could something like this be allowed to happen?
A tough lesson on medical privacy - Pakistani transcriber threatens UCSF over back pay
A woman in Pakistan doing cut-rate clerical work for UCSF Medical Center threatened to post patients’ confidential files on the Internet unless she was paid more money.To show she was serious, the woman sent UCSF an e-mail earlier this month with actual patients’ records attached.
The violation of medical privacy - apparently the first of its kind - highlights the danger of “offshoring” work that involves sensitive materials, an increasing trend among budget-conscious U.S. companies and institutions.
Not only do we have concerns about protecting our personal data, and how our employers handle our private information (see CEO Arrested For Stealing Identities of Employees and Starbucks Employee Identity Data Theft), but now we have to worry about cheap labour outsourced overseas uploading our private data on the internet.