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Recycled Medical Records Used As Scrap Paper At Elementary School
Parents with students at Hale Elementary School in Minneapolis have found something interesting on the back of their children's pictures hanging on the fridge, detailed medical information. From the article: "Jennifer Kane was tidying her dining room when she found the drawing by her daughter, Keely, who goes to Hale Elementary School. On the back of the paper was the name, birth date and detailed medical information for a 24-year-old St. Paul woman named Paula White. 'The more I read it, the more alarmed I became about the amount of information I had about this person,' said Kane." The security lapse has been blamed on a paralegal donating the paper to the school.
Look in the source code of this comment for detailed medical records!
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
"Mommy, whats 'anal hemorrhoids'?"
But now it's passed to 3rd parties AND 3rd graders!
Three decades ago when I was in high school, they loaded our PDP-8's line printer with the the back sides of boring inventory reports from some manufacturing company.
However, now that we don't manufacturer anything in the USA any more, and our entire economy is becoming nothing more than a mix of healthcare providers and consumers, they *have* to use old health records for printer paper in schools. There's nothing else to use.
We've bought a few advanced projectors on mobile cats...
At my school we had mobile projector cats, too. It was hard to keep those little monsters still through an entire lecture, though. Especially when the teacher pulled out the laser pointer.