For this year’s Balisage in Montreal, we (R. Dingwell, A. Gregorowicz, H. Sleeper, and myself) have been accepted as a late-breaking proposal for our work on hData, which addresses some problems that are currently plaguing electronic health records. Our session…
Category: Privacy
What happens when a bureaucracy goes wild? Well, you can end up in a situation where private companies are facing the most restrictive privacy regime in the world, while government agencies are at liberty to spy on their people at…
When I read Larry Seltzer’s piece on H.R. S 773 IS, I fell into a constant nod about the issues he raised. In addition, I have two more: SEC. 11 (a): Lofty goals, but these seem rather obvious, since they…
The excellent article “Security and Data Sharing” by Mark Richard and Leslie Lebl points to a few very important ramifications that the less than ideal current data sharing situation with the E.U. brings and what the ratification of the horrible…
After my initial irritation about Massachusetts Governor Patrick ideas about creating a state-wide Big Brother register of citizen’s location died down, I just heard this morning about another state ignoring the “right to be left alone”: Oregon is rolling out…
Through Ian Fletcher of Burton: Peter Fleischer of Google is now facing criminal charges for failing to prevent the publication of a defamatory video on Google’s video site – taking it down after 24 hours was not sufficient. While this…