September 30th, 2008
A federal appeals court today escalated the heated legal feud between the federal government and the Major League Baseball players’ union, deciding to rehear...
September 30th, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took action today to enable the state to impose stiff fines on hospital employees who snoop in the files of patients...
September 24th, 2008
Laptop searches at the border have sparked debate about how the government’s broad powers to search international travelers should apply to electronic data.
Under current...
September 23rd, 2008
As members of Congress weigh legislation to create a nationwide system of electronic health records, states are poised to act quickly through coordinated efforts...
September 18th, 2008
The advent of “in the cloud” medical records services, such as Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health, promises an explosion in the storage of personal...
September 2nd, 2008
Managers should play a major role in ensuring that their companies adhere to ethical online privacy policies. Using spyware, web monitoring software or other...
August 29th, 2008
Google’s approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant’s chief privacy strategist told ZDNet Australia on Thursday in a video...
August 28th, 2008
The National Institutes of Health quietly blocked public access to databases of patient DNA profiles after learning of a study that found the genetic...
August 19th, 2008
An HHS office has resolved more than half of complaints about possible violations of the medical privacy rule issued after the passage of the...
August 12th, 2008
Several Internet and broadband companies have acknowledged using targeted-advertising technology without explicitly informing customers, according to letters released yesterday by the House Energy and...
