Is Your Dr. “Googling” You?
March 24th, 2010
Deborah Peel appeared on CNBC's Street Signs for a discussion on Doctors going online for additional patient information without patient consent
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Privacy Degree Zero
March 18th, 2010
More and more ways they find to track anything and everything about YOU.
Locking down privacy: Where do we draw the line?
March 1st, 2010
Patient privacy dates back to ancient Greece, beginning with the physician and teacher Hippocrates, who is often called the father of...
They got it wrong… AGAIN!
December 31st, 2009
See article: ‘Meaningful Use’ criteria released
Can you believe it? Doctors and hospitals that purchase electronic health records (EHRs) ‘wired’ for ‘back-door’ data...
Facebook setting the standards for Health Care?
December 14th, 2009
No laws forced Facebook to add more consumer control to who sees what — the public did. See story: Facebook privacy revisions...
Employers after DNA: GINA does not protect like you think.
October 29th, 2009
See this CBS News article: Want A Job In Akron? Hand Over Your DNA
The idea that GINA protects genetic tests from being held...
The Word Is Out: Do You Know Who Owns Your Health Records?
October 19th, 2009
This WIRED article, Medical Records: Stored in the Cloud, Sold on the Open Market, is based on yesterday’s NYTimes story that...
Re-Identification. From Netflix to Health Records.
October 17th, 2009
Today’s NY Times story points out the FACT that is very easy to re-identify supposedly “de-identified” information. Singer starts with how the...
Open Source Research
October 9th, 2009
See the Government Health IT article: NCI to open research grid to cancer patient ‘army’
Women desperate to cure breast cancer are contributing...
De-identified? Yeah, right.
September 9th, 2009
See these articles:
Netflix Contest Seen As Posing Privacy Risk
Netflix is about to commit a privacy Valdez with its customers’ viewing data
AOL, ...