USA Today reported that US hospitals are data mining their patient records to promote lucrative health services.
Health information such as smoking history or past medical problems is being combined with consumer credit information to determine who might have need for services and the ability to pay. Continue reading
Computerworld – A recent lawsuit filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is drawing attention to the question of whether employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy when using personal email accounts on workplace computers.
The lawsuit was filed last week by six whistle-blowers at the FDA who allege that their private emails were extensively monitored after they began complaining to lawmakers about serious irregularities in the agency’s medical device review process. Continue reading
@ EU
Ian Paul, PCWorld – “European data protection authorities are asking Google to delay its roll out of a new consolidated privacy policy that will further integrate your personal information across all of Google’s services.” Continue reading