Privacy Degree Zero
March 18th, 2010
More and more ways they find to track anything and everything about YOU.
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BMA calls for roll-out of electronic patient records to be suspended
March 10th, 2010
The BMA has written to the government calling for a suspension of the programme to upload summaries of patients’ medical records in England...
How to reconcile Kaiser’s statements about who can access patient data
March 9th, 2010
Kaiser Permanente does not seem to stick with the same story when it comes to privacy.
VA investigating security breach of veterans’ medical data
March 9th, 2010
The Veterans Affairs Department’s inspector general has launched a criminal investigation into a physician assistant’s alleged downloading of veterans’ clinical data at...
DNA Destruction
March 9th, 2010
In the weeks before state health officials destroyed more than 5 million newborn blood samples they had stored without consent, privacy advocates, parents and...
Patients are not being adequately informed about electronic patient records, says BMA
March 1st, 2010
Patients don’t have enough information about electronic patient records and it is too hard for them to opt-out if they want to, the...
Ethics Debate Over Blood From Newborn Safety Tests
February 8th, 2010
A critical safety net for babies — that heel prick of blood taken from every newborn — is facing an ethics attack.
Employers after DNA: GINA does not protect like you think.
October 29th, 2009
See this CBS News article: Want A Job In Akron? Hand Over Your DNA
The idea that GINA protects genetic tests from being held...
De-identified? Yeah, right.
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, ...
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...