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How To Break Out Of PRISM

Simon Phipps | InfoWorld | June 14, 2013

NSA scandal has exploded fears of being watched on the Internet, but a new website lists ways to escape the Panopticon Read More »

I Challenged Hackers To Investigate Me And What They Found Out Is Chilling

Alan L. Penenberg | PandoDaily | October 26, 2013

It’s my first class of the semester at New York University. I’m discussing the evils of plagiarism and falsifying sources with 11 graduate journalism students when, without warning, my computer freezes. I fruitlessly tap on the keyboard as my laptop takes on a life of its own and reboots. [...] I’m being hacked — and only have myself to blame. Read More »

If PRISM Is Good Policy, Why Stop With Terrorism?

Derek Khanna | The Atlantic | July 4, 2013

Defenders of the program say its effectiveness excuses it -- but they ignore the Fourth Amendment. Read More »

Industry Agrees To New Mobile App Guidelines

Anne Flaherty | Modern Healthcare | July 25, 2013

Industry groups and privacy advocates on Thursday were near agreement on voluntary guidelines for mobile apps that should make it easier for consumers to know what personal information is getting sucked from their smartphone or tablet and passed along to marketers. Read More »

Is Big Data Already Outpacing Health IT?

Diana Manos | Government Health IT | February 11, 2014

Call it super-mega big data. Taking just one example, cancer research, highlights how far the healthcare industry has yet to go to actually make sense from the mountains of information that already exist. Read More »

Larry Ellison, NSA Database Supplier, Approves Of NSA Surveillance

Philip Bump | The Atlantic Wire | August 13, 2013

Larry Ellison is exceedingly rich and powerful. He is the third-most-wealthy person in the United States and runs Oracle, the database giant. And yet somehow, as he revealed during an interview on CBS Tuesday morning, he is hopelessly uninformed on the ramifications of NSA surveillance. Or, perhaps willfully uninformed. After all, the NSA is an Oracle client, which CBS didn't mention. Read More »

Nest Thermostat Acquisition Is Google's Home Invasion

Chris Baraniuk | NewScientist | January 15, 2014

On Monday, Google announced the second-biggest acquisition in its history. The tech giant shelled out $3.2 billion for smart-thermostat manufacturer Nest Labs of Palo Alto, California. But what does Google want with your central heating? And what could this mean for the future of "smart homes"? Read More »

NSA Concedes Hadoop Beats Its Pricey Alternatives

Matt Asay | ReadWrite | June 21, 2013

Despite its billion-dollar budget, the open-source community builds better Big Data technology than the NSA. Read More »

NSA Said To Collect Millions Of E-mail Address Books, Chat Lists

Steven Musil | CNET | October 14, 2013

Collection occurs when Internet services transmit the data during routine activity such as composing a message, The Washington Post reports. Read More »

Privacy Leader Takes Issue With ‘Myths’ About Big Data

Deborah Peel | Health Data Management | January 24, 2014

Responding to a recently published story in Health Data Management, “The Biggest Big Data Myths of 2013,” as well as the news that drug database vendor IMS Health Holdings will go public, Deborah Peel, M.D., leader of the Patient Privacy Rights advocacy group, offers a different view of Big Data: Read More »

Q&A: Why Was The VA Hacked?

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | June 25, 2013

In early June, a former Department of Veterans Affairs IT manager told members of the House Veterans Affairs Committee that the VA’s databases have been hacked by at least eight foreign organizations — notably by organizations linked with the Chinese military, which may have viewed (or taken) veterans’ personal identifying data, like Social Security numbers. Read More »

Researcher Sounds Alarm On State Health Exchange Security

Jaikumar Vijayan | Computerworld | November 7, 2013

Several state healthcare exchanges established as part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) appear buggy and easy to attack, a security researcher warned this week. Read More »

Researchers Find A Way To Hack Spanish Language HealthCare.gov

Aliya Sternstein | Nextgov | October 30, 2013

Until fixed on Wednesday afternoon, a security flaw in CuidadoDeSalud.gov -- the Spanish language version of HealthCare.gov -- could have allowed hackers to steal personal information from enrollees as they typed, according to three independent software developers. The Health and Human Services Department repaired the software error after Nextgov inquired about the defect early Wednesday. Read More »

Security Hole In Healthcare.gov Exposed User Email Addresses

Russell Brandom | The Verge | October 30, 2013

Healthcare.gov has been racked with technical problems since the site's launch, but a new vulnerability may have unintentionally exposed users... Read More »

Senators Launch Probe Of Massive Data Breaches

Dustin Volz | Nextgov | February 4, 2014

Several senators repeated calls for legislation to ward off massive data thefts during a hearing Monday to review the vulnerability of the nation's digital-payment systems, the first in a trio of sessions this week examining the enormous breaches sustained recently at retailers around the country. Read More »