"Confidential" medical databases (fwd from Cypherpunks)

[David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>]

  From: Brad Dolan <bdolan@USIT.NET>
  To: cypherpunks@toad.com
  
  
  
  
  AP, 9/19/96:
  
  Copies of a confidential computer disk containing the names of
  4,000 AIDS patients were shipped anonymously to two newspapers
  by someone who claimed a [Florida] state health worker had been
  showing it on his laptop computer to friends outside a gay bar.
  
  William B. Calvert III, 35, of Treasure Island, was one of only
  three state Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services
  employees with authorized access to the confidential information.
  
  Calvert was suspended with pay Thursday as the Florida Department
  of Law Enforcement and HRS investigated the breach.
  
  "This is very serious. We are not aware of any breach of
  confidentiality of this magnitude," Jay Coburn of the AIDS Action
  Council in Washington, D.C.  said Thursday.
  
  Nobody knows how many copies of the disk have been made, or who
  has them.  If the allegations prove true, it could be the worst
  violation of AIDS confidentiality in history.
  
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