#unprotected data

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Ring Response Letter

Source document contributed to DocumentCloud by Joseph Cox (Joseph Cox, Independent Journalist).

tl;dr is that under questioning by US senators, Ring admits Amazon employees have been fired for illegally accessing camera owners’ video data.

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‘An open door’: Millions of health records ‘unprotected online’

Investigative journalists have found poor security has left the medical records of millions of patients worldwide totally out in the open.

Medical records of millions of people around the world have been left unprotected on the internet due to poor basic security protocols or a lack of passwords, an investigation has found. The 16 million datasets, which affect patients in 52 countries, comprise names, dates of birth, X-rays, MRI scans and CT scans — and in some cases include the details of procedures carried out, too.

These vulnerabilities were discovered during a joint investigation by US investigative journalism non-profit ProPublica and Germany's Bayerischer Rundfunk news outlet. Among the findings, it discovered five servers in Germany and a further 187 in the US that made patients' records available online without a password.

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