fan-tastic.

today i received a letter from the local hospital telling me my personal information and confidentiality was breached. apparently my information, and that of several thousand patients, was stored on one of a few laptops which were stolen.

according to them:

it is our policy to store such data on secure central network drives…however due to a problem with the network drive this data was being stored temporarily on the laptops…

yeah, i know what “temporary” means. it means those laptops were sitting there long enough for someone to suss out what the value was, where they were stored, and how to best steal them without getting caught.

and i’m supposed to trust all these agencies that want to store even more of my sensitive information? right now some dude is running around with my name, address, birthdate and some boring information about my ovaries. but what if instead of my hospital number, it were my passport number and “secure biometric data”? or my national insurance number and credit report? or my dna?

fuck that.

south san gabriel – trust to lose

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