Kashmir Hill writes: Facebook’s ability to figure out the “people we might know” is sometimes eerie. Many a Facebook user has been creeped out when a one-time Tinder date or an ex-boss from 10 years ago suddenly pops up as a friend recommendation. How does the big blue giant know? While some of these incredibly accurate…
Category: Healthcare
Your prescriptions aren’t private, and if your state doesn’t require court authorization to access your history, well….
Add this investigation to your must-read list. Mark Greenblatt and Angela M. Hill of Scripps News report: The prescriptions you have in your medicine cabinet might not be as private as you believe they are. Thirty-one states grant law enforcement warrantless access to databases containing drug histories, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is pushing hard…
Girls Must Answer Questions On Period, Pregnancy To Enter This University In Rajasthan
Punita Maheshwari reports: She turned the page, and there it stared at her, unblinking, insistent, and bold: “What was the last date of menstruation?” Stunned, she stole a glance around. Nobody was looking at her. But, caught on the wrong foot, it took her a solid minute to compose herself. Should she answer the question?…
Stealth plan to sell UK patient health data
Politico reports: The British government is considering plans to sell health data to private firms without patient consent, weeks after a public outcry over privacy forced it to scrap a similar scheme. Buried in new guidelines on how to handle patient data, and barely mentioned by the Department of Health, is a recommendation that all…