This will be a brief post as I’m getting ready to head out for work.
The Minneapolis-based alternative weekly newspaper, City Pages, reported yesterday that last fall a Minnesota woman logged onto Facebook, only to find more than one posting about her, and her medical records. Specifically, her Planned Parentood records including a photo of her intake form, prescription records, and even what methods of pregnancy termination she would consider.
Even more disturbingly, one post labeled her as a “baby killer”.
The woman reported this to the FBI, which opened a cyber-crimes investigation. Only recently has the search warrant used by the FBI been revealed.
The link below relates more information about this on-going investigation. It should go without saying that this is an egregious violation of HIPAA for starters.
www.citypages.com/…
The Minneapolis Star Tribune also reported on this earlier in the week with a lengthy detailing of how the warrant was kept secret for a time due to the sensitive nature of the information. It also noted that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) has opened a cyber-stalking investigation in the matter.
www.startribune.com/...
[I’ll try to update later in the day when I have a moment. Feel free to add to the story in the comments as this is pretty sickening...]
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who commented, and added content from the two source articles. You did my work for me :)
As this story unfolds I’ll do my best to try and provide further updates to tell what may come. As these matters go, the pace can be glacial and far too often with little resolution. Let’s hope not but let’s also be vigilant about similar stories. Jerks like the one(s) who did this should never be allowed to get away with it.