Google Storing User Data: Controlling Privacy and Relevancy
June 18th, 2007
There has been a bit of a dust-up in the world of online privacy following the release of a report that smacked Google for...
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Privacy Issues Raised As Health Records Go Online
June 12th, 2007
Privacy groups are sounding alarms as the nation’s largest insurance companies finalize plans to allow millions more customers to post their health records on...
Google’s goal: to organise your daily life
May 22nd, 2007
Google’s ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can...
Medical outsourcing debacle
April 15th, 2007
Cost-cutting doctors are breaching privacy laws and could be endangering patients’ lives by sending medical files overseas to be typed up cheaply. An investigation...
Found on the Web, With DNA: a Boy’s Father
November 13th, 2005
Like many children whose mothers used an anonymous sperm donor, the 15-year-old boy longed for any shred of information about his biological father. But,...
Health Records Of Evacuees Go Online
September 14th, 2005
The federal government is making medical information on Hurricane Katrina evacuees available online to doctors, the first time private records from various pharmacies and...
Willing the World to Listen
February 28th, 2005
On March 1, 2004, my family and I huddled in a room at Columbia University Medical Center, awaiting the diagnosis of my then 2-year-old...