University Hospital Employees Photograph Patients, Post Photos on MySpace

The AP reports that the University of New Mexico Hospital has fired two workers for taking using cell phone cameras to snap photographs of patients and then to post them on a MySpace page. The Hospital administration has indicated that such actions are a breach of patient privacy. The photographs, from which identifiable details had been removed, have been taken down. The hospital administration said that only the employee’s “online friends” could get access to the page on which the photos were posted. Read more here and here.