Salvador Hernandez reports: Family Tree DNA, one of the largest private genetic testing companies whose home-testing kits enable people to trace their ancestry and locate relatives, is working with the FBI and allowing agents to search its vast genealogy database in an effort to solve violent crime cases, BuzzFeed News has learned. Federal and local…
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‘Flawed’ privacy in Queensland Health’s electronic medical record, expert says
Lucy Stone reports: A “very strange model” allows all Queensland Health clinicians to edit the medical data of all patients in public hospitals that have the integrated electronic medical record installed, a leading health law expert says. Queensland University of Technology innovation law professor Matthew Rimmer said it appeared the $600 million electronic medical record…
Privacy Advocates Argue One Link Click Doesn’t Justify Search
Brad Kutner reports: An internet privacy group went before the Fourth Circuit on Thursday trying to convince the three-judge panel that the government overstepped its authority by searching a man’s house for child pornography based on a single internet link he clicked. “A single click on a URL should not be enough” for probable cause,…
FaceTime Bug Lets iPhone Users Eavesdrop, in a Stumble for Apple
Brian X. Chen reports: The iPhone as an eavesdropping device? Watch out. It can happen. On Monday, Twitter and other social networking sites lit up with anxious Apple users after the news site 9to5Mac reported on a strange glitch in the company’s iPhones. The issue: It turns out that an iPhone user can call another…