NebuAd Halts Plans For Web Tracking
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...
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Healthcare moving to Cloud Computing
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...
Who is tracking YOU?
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 ...
And You Thought a Prescription Was Private
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...
Security and Hacking, Real Fears
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...
Genetic Privacy Debate hits Major League Baseball
July 22nd, 2009
The story highlights the use of DNA testing by ‘employers’–Major League Baseball franchises. Baseball tests to verify the ages and identities...
Is Government Health Care Constitutional?
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...
But privacy is ALREADY gone!
June 22nd, 2009
Refer to Wall Street Journal article: Is Government Health Care Constitutional?
The authors fear that Americans’ health privacy rights will be eliminated by health reform...
The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform
May 16th, 2009
The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform: How an Industry Lobby Scored a Swift, Unexpected Victory by Channeling Billions to Electronic Records
A Start to Securing PHI?
May 6th, 2009
Sometimes press releases for new products tell us far more about the risk of identity theft in electronic health systems than the mainstream press...