September 23rd, 2009
Privacy advocates are questioning Netflix’s plan to release “anonymized” data as part of an effort to crowdsource improvements to its recommendation system.
…Although...
September 22nd, 2009
CU Boulder’s Paul Ohm writes about Netflix’s insane new plan to release millions of customers’ personal information — ZIP code, gender, year...
September 4th, 2009
Tech firm NebuAd has put on hold plans to widely deploy an online advertising technology that tracks consumers’ every Web click while Congress reviews...
August 11th, 2009
Cloud computing is not just on the healthcare horizon. Partial and pure-play cloud computing architectures are already serving healthcare information technology needs...
August 9th, 2009
Randee Lonergan says a pharmacy sold her prescription history to a local Target without her knowledge.
MORE than 10 years after she tried without success...
August 4th, 2009
The government is committing billions of dollars for technology systems that help healthcare providers share information. But making patient data more accessible...
July 23rd, 2009
On last night’s O’Reilly Factor (7/22/09)… O’Reilly demonstrated his primary fear almost panic over the assumption that his medical records...
July 21st, 2009
Confronted with cases of identity and age falsification by Latin American baseball prospects, Major League Baseball is conducting genetic testing on some...
June 23rd, 2009
More than 30 bloggers from the medical, technology and patient advocacy worlds are rallying to support patients’ right to obtain copies of their computerized...
June 22nd, 2009
The right to privacy conflicts with rationing and regulation.
Is a government-dominated health-care system unconstitutional? A strong case can be made for that proposition, based...
