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 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, ...
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 15th, 2009
Joe Conn looks more deeply into the problems of ‘cloud’ computing for the storage, exchange, and analysis of health data. See his article...
August 12th, 2009
On the Internet ALL your health searches about scary and stigmatizing illnesses, all searches or purchases of books on health, and all ...
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...
August 4th, 2009
See the WSJ Article: New Epidemic Fears: Hackers
Securing health records in small doctor’s offices and clinics is not easy: small offices can’t...
July 30th, 2009
Notice how the for-profit research industry wants access “baked” into all EHRs up front for research uses, to avoid getting individuals’ consents.
They call this...