Niamh McIntyre and David Pegg report: Vast quantities of data on hundreds of thousands of people is being used to construct computer models in an effort to predict child abuse and intervene before it can happen, the Guardian has learned. Amid mounting financial pressure, local councils are developing “predictive analytics” systems to algorithmically identify families…
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MN: Fairview Southdale cited for secretly videotaping patients
Jeremy Olson reports: A federal Medicare investigation has found that Fairview Southdale Hospital violated the privacy rights of certain patients by taping them without their knowledge during psychiatric evaluations in the emergency department. The investigation centered on a woman who was taken to the emergency room of the Edina hospital against her will in May…
Parent advocacy results in Toronto District School Board seeking written consent for GAFE
In response to a recent post encouraging parents to ask questions about schools’ data security and data privacy, “Speak up parents, speak up,” one of this site’s regular readers submitted a comment: Parents don’t care. All they want to see are their children’s photos on school Facebook, Instagram or Twitter account pages for the whole…