Carolyn Duffy Marsan has an informative piece on Government Health IT about the different requirements of different pieces of federal legislation and how they impact sharing federally held health data with the private sector. She writes, in part: FISMA has 171 information security controls that are mandated for federal agencies. In contrast, the U.S. healthcare…
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Airlines to require more passenger data
Airlines this week will begin requiring some people making reservations for domestic flights to submit their dates of birth and genders as part of a screening process aimed at keeping boarding passes out of the hands of suspected terrorists, the Transportation Security Administration said. The agency said the screening would all play out behind the…
Anonymization FAIL! Privacy Law FAIL!
Paul Ohm writes that he has uploaded his latest draft article entitled, “Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization” to SSRN, where you can download a free copy of the article. The Abstract: Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for…
Lawsuit against Tagged.com
Two California residents have sued social networking site Tagged.com for allegedly duping them into sharing their email contacts and then sending those contacts misleading ads. […] The lawsuit comes several weeks after New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said he intended to sue Tagged for false advertising, invasion of privacy and engaging in a…