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• New Zealand Privacy Commissioner: Annual report shows privacy concerns on the rise

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  The New Zealand Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff has released an annual report (pdf) (here’s a highlights page) about the state of privacy issues in the country. Some important points from the report:Our nationwide public opinion survey showed that concern about personal information and privacy issues has grown or ...
  3 days ago

• National Public Radio: When Your Boss Wants Your DNA

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  As the date for the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-233) to go into effect for employers has just passed, there has been more press coverage of genetic privacy issues. GINA, which was signed in May 2008 by President Bush, restricts the collection and use of genetic information in a ...
  4 days ago

• Op-Ed at Christian Science Monitor: Senate health care bill: the five paragraphs you must read

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  At the Christian Science Monitor, Sue Blevins (president of the Institute for Health Freedom in Washington) and Robin Kaigh (an attorney and medical-privacy advocate in New York) write about the US Senate health care bill that is currently under debate.What most of us know about the Democratic bill is that it requires ...
  4 days ago

• Times (UK): Police apologise for arresting black rock band The Thirst at gunpoint

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  The Times reports that UK police are apologizing for the arrest (and fingerprinting and DNA sample-taking) of members of The Thirst band on the basis of false information that came from camera surveillance (CCTV) operator.A police force has apologised after deploying 30 officers, a fleet of vehicles, dogs and a ...
  5 days ago

• Associated Press: Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  The Associated Press reports:Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina’s Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago – even when they don’t want to know their birth parents.Human rights activists hope the new ...
  6 days ago

• CBS Early Show: Digital Medical Records’ Privacy a Problem

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  The CBS Early Show recently had a segment on the privacy of medical record data.And your doctor may not be the only one looking into your records, as CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton reported on “The Early Show” in our “Somebody’s Watching You” series.The health information technology ...
  1 week ago

• Wired: Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  Wired reports the Obama administration is seeking to reverse a recent ruling (pdf) by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals concerning search of digital evidence.Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Justice Department officials are asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider its August ruling that federal ...
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• Roundup of Privacy Stories from Thanksgiving Holiday

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  Here are a few stories of interest from the last few days:WHAS11: Louisville police reveal use of GPS tracking, sometimes without a warrantWHAS11 in Louisville, Kentucky, reports on the warrantless use of GPS (a location-tracking technology) by police. (For more on the legality of warrantless GPS tracking by law ...
  1 week ago

• CBC News: Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  CBC News reports that Manulife, a major Canadian insurance company, has revoked an Ontario woman’s sick leave benefits after the company accessed photos from Nathalie Blanchard’s Facebook profile — a profile that she had set as private and only viewable by approved friends. (See my comments after the jump about ...
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• NCPA and Consumer, Privacy Advocates Urge Feds to Investigate CVS Caremark for Alleged HIPAA Violations

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  The National Community Pharmacists Association announced that it has joined several consumer privacy groups (Consumer Action, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Patient Privacy Rights, Private Citizen, and Privacy Journal) in asking the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Las Vegas Sun: Hospital privacy leak could harm patients

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  In the last few weeks, there have been numerous stories about insiders accused of abusing their access to government or corporate databases. A police chief in Iowa has been suspended while there’s an investigation into whether he misused his access to driver’s license and criminal history data. The Associated ...
  2 weeks ago

• Times (UK): Privacy fears as DNA testing firm deCODE Genetics goes bust

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  The Times reports on possible privacy problems concerning to the closing of an Icelandic DNA-testing company. The case raises similar questions to those in the United States case of airport program Clear. Clear was the leading company in the Transportation Security Administration’s Registered Traveler program, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wipro unveils new application for remote healthcare

  
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  Bangalore, Nov 21 (IANS) Wipro Technologies has developed a medical gateway solution for remote healthcare management on real-time basis through mobile, broadband and dial-up networks, the IT bellwether said Saturday.Powered by Intel’s Atom processor, the solution will enable improved care coordination between ...
  2 weeks ago

• New York Times: Law Seeks to Ban Misuse of Genetic Testing

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-233) was signed in May 2008 by President Bush. He called GINA “a piece of legislation which prohibits health insurers and employers from discriminating on the basis of genetic information. In other words, it protects our citizens from having genetic ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Hill: New security system uses Wii technology and worries GOP

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  The Hill reports on questions by members of Congress about the privacy implications of the “Future Attribute Screening Technology“ (FAST), which I discussed last year, as well as the Department of Homeland Security’s use of the Nintendo Wii gaming system.Several Republican lawmakers are worried about the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Irish Times: Tight controls urged in use of personal data

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  The Irish Times discusses a new report from the Irish Council for Bioethics, “Biometrics: Enhancing Security or Invading Privacy?” (5 MB pdf available here from the Irish Council for Bioethics; Privacy Lives archive copy).People are in effect giving up a piece of their bodies when they provide personal biometric ...
  3 weeks ago

• Washington Post: TSA nominee questioned over background check run on ex-wife’s boyfriend

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  The Washington Post reports that President Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration had been censured for misusing government database information for personal reasons. When he was an FBI agent in 1988, Erroll Southers “asked a co-worker’s husband who worked for the San Diego Police ...
  3 weeks ago

• Guardian (UK): Police to continue to hold DNA of innocent people

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  The Guardian reports that the UK Home Office “ministers confirmed they want to see the DNA profiles of innocent people kept on the national database for six years, after failing to persuade parliament to back a longer period of up to 12 years for the most serious offences.” Also, the ministers said “in the case ...
  3 weeks ago

• PHR Products – Content and Protection

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 128
  There are many new PHR products that run on USB keys, flash drives, mobile phone devices, PDA’s and more being introduced to the market every day. For a PHR application to be truely beneficial it must be platform independent, have a zero footprint, be accessible , with a permissions structure, be available to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• AFP: Experts agree on proposed global privacy standards

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 479
  AFP reports on a privacy declaration from the Madrid, Spain, conference of data protection and privacy commissioners from around the world.Experts from 50 nations meeting in Madrid have reached a draft agreement on international standards for the protection of privacy and personal data, participants said on ...
  3 weeks ago

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