Who owns patient data?
The notion of ownership is inadequate for health information.For instance, no one has an absolute right to destroy health information.All stakeholder groups have a complex series of rights and...
View ArticleBig Data for Marketing: Respect Consumer Privacy or Get Burned
It is well-understood at this point that even basic personalization, like using customers' individual names, can substantially increase open and response rates for physical and digital mail."The...
View ArticleLawyer: Health privacy case not unique
Hundreds of patients who received letters of apology from the SouthWest regional health authority this week are just the latest victims of privacy invasion, something increasingly common in the...
View ArticleHackers Encrypt Health Records and Hold Data for Ransom
The Surgeons of Lake County, a medical facility in the northern Illinois suburb of Libertyville, revealed last month that hackers had burrowed deeply into its computer network, infiltrating a server...
View ArticleHarris County patient information allegedly sold in Medicare kickback
The Harris County Hospital District recently told around 3,000 patients that their personal information, such as Social Security numbers and addresses, could have been stolen by a former employee.The...
View ArticleFour fired, three suspended over privacy breaches: B.C. health minister
VICTORIA --- The B.C. government announced Thursday it has suspended all drug-related research and fired four of its employees as part of an investigation into the alleged misuse of confidential...
View ArticleHealth scandal leads to research lockdown
The B.C. government announced Thursday it has suspended all drugrelated research and fired four of its employees as part of an investigation into the alleged misuse of confidential medical...
View ArticleWikipedia Releases Search Data To Public But Pulls It After Privacy Concerns
Wikipedia announced they have decided to give away their search data to the public for free.Yea, they would just give away search data to anyone would wanted to download it.Shortly after they announced...
View ArticleUtah Health Care Data Breach Exposed About 780,000 Patient Files
A weak password is to blame for the hacking of a Utah Department of Technology Services server containing patients' Social Security numbers and data on children's health plans.On March 30 a hacker from...
View ArticleHackers steal 500,000 credit card details from Australian business, damage...
Hackers have grabbed the details of an estimated 500,000 credit cards in Australia after hacking into the poorly secured database of an unnamed business in what police have labelled a "disaster waiting...
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