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
March 18th, 2010
More and more ways they find to track anything and everything about YOU.
March 1st, 2010
Patient privacy dates back to ancient Greece, beginning with the physician and teacher Hippocrates, who is often called the father of...
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...
December 14th, 2009
No laws forced Facebook to add more consumer control to who sees what — the public did. See story: Facebook privacy revisions...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...