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What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?
A scholar argues that the core issue is protecting consumers from corporations that are developing ever more sophisticated techniques for getting people to part with their money. Read More »
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What Does Screening Your Phone Records Have To Do With Health Care?
I have been following the news about the National Security Agency (NSA) access to our phone records with great interest. If we as a society don’t sort some of this out, we’ll see a repeat in the health sector a few years from now. Read More »
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What Does The Consumer Data Industry Know About You?
Ever been bankrupt? Expecting a child? A whole lot of information about who you are -- and what kind of consumer you are -- is for sale. Read More »
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What Is Corruption Mapping?
In the past year, we have seen a rise of corruption tracking maps or maps that include tracking corruption as part of their project. A number of our Deployment of the Weeks have been corruption maps. And, one of our Trusted Developers, Tarik Nash-Nesh, has been a leader connecting Ushahidi’s community with Transparency International. Read More »
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What The AP Subpoena Scandal Means For Your Electronic Privacy
The Justice Department’s snooping on journalists working for the Associated Press is an abuse of power in the broadest sense. But one reason the whole episode is controversial at all is because the Obama administration technically broke no rules. Read More »
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What Was The FBI Doing With 12 Million Apple IDs Anyway?
This morning AntiSec released a list of 1 million out of 12 million Apple UDID's that it said it got from the FBI, which has raised many questions, most prominently perhaps: Just what was the FBI doing with that data in the first place? Read More »
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What Will Google Glass Do For Health?
As early adopters test out the new technology, many are excited about its potential for improving care – but some are sounding alarms. Read More »
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What Will Happen If The Feds Get Warrantless Access To Phone Location Data
On Tuesday prosecutors for the Obama administration argued that records of location data gathered by cell-phone companies should be available to law enforcement even when no search warrant has previously been issued by a judge. Read More »
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What’s In Store For Health IT In 2014?
2013 was a good year for health IT and has laid the foundation for 2014 to be the biggest year ever for the industry. Read More »
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When It's At The Border, Your Data Is Fair Game — Even On Your Laptop
Americans are protected from warrantless search in America — but not at the nation's borders. The imaginary line separating the United States from the rest of the world has become a critical demarcation for the privacy of the country's citizens, as new documents from the ACLU and the ongoing Snowden leaks make clear. Read More »
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When To Regulate mHealth Apps?
With events such as the Consumer Electronics Associations’ 2013 International CES conference this week in Las Vegas, featuring a dizzying 3,000 global app companies and a digital health summit, there is a lot of hype around what apps can do for healthcare. Read More »
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When Will Our Email Betray Us? An Email Privacy Primer In Light Of The Petraeus Saga
The unfolding scandal that led to the resignation of Gen. David Petraeus, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, started with some purportedly harassing emails. [...] After the FBI kicked its investigation into high gear, it identified the sender as Paula Broadwell. [...] We've received a lot of questions about how this works—what legal process the FBI needs to conduct its email investigation. The short answer? It's complicated. Read More »
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White House Expands Guidance On Promoting Open Data
White House officials have announced expanded technical guidance to help agencies make more data accessible to the public in machine-readable formats. Read More »
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White House Names Former Microsoft Exec To Run Healthcare.gov
Former Microsoft executive Kurt DelBene will take over the volunteer job of overseeing ongoing fixes to the federal Obamacare marketplace HealthCare.gov starting Wednesday, officials said. Read More »
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Whose Data Is It Anyway?
A common and somewhat unique aspect to EHR vendor contracts is that the EHR vendor lays claim to the data entered into their system. Rob and I, who co-authored this post, have worked in many industries as analysts. Nowhere, in our collective experience, have we seen such a thing. Read More »
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