Carl Campanile reports: The FDNY is seeking to build a digital firewall to protect the Big Apple’s thousands of rescue workers from cyberattacks, including “doxxing,” The Post has learned. The department recently put out a call in the City Record for consultant services “for the development and implementation of protective strategies to address the cyber…
Category: Healthcare
You agreed to what? Doctor check-in software harvests your health data
Gregory Fowler reports: […] Several Washington Post readers recently wrote to Ask Help Desk about a consent form they were asked to sign while checking in for a doctor’s appointment. Most of us just hurriedly fill out whatever paperwork is put in front of us, but these eagle-eyed readers paused at this: “I hereby authorize…
What can browser history inadvertently reveal about a person’s health?
Michele W. Berger One day a few years back, Penn emergency medicine physician Ari Friedman decided to see what would happen if he declined third-party cookies on a medical journal website. “I’d read enough about privacy and leaks and what was going on with the data that I wanted to turn them off,” says Friedman….
Don’t rely on a business associate agreement if the business associate is Iron Mountain (UPDATED)
Update of June 15: My tweets about the situation described below resulted in Iron Mountain’s Twitter team contacting their internal team, who called me. As of yesterday afternoon, the patient records that had supposedly been securely destroyed more than a year ago were finally securely destroyed. I was also told by customer service that the…