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…
Clooney to sue paparazzi over photos
The Dutch royals aren’t the only ones suing the media this month. TMZ reports that George Clooney is gearing up for a legal war in Italy — claiming invasive paparazzi climbed over the wall of his Italian home and shot a topless photo of a 13-year-old girl changing in one of his guest rooms. In…
Dutch royals in privacy lawsuit against AP
Lawyers for the Dutch crown prince argued in court Friday that The Associated Press violated his privacy by taking photographs of his family on a skiing holiday in Argentina. The AP photographs of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, his Argentine-born wife Maxima and their 4-year-old daughter Amalia on a slope were published July 30 in several Dutch…
More seek privacy from Google book search settlement
Concerns about Google Book Search and its potential effects on reader privacy are spreading widely in the wake of the joint action alert issued by EFF and the ACLU of Northern California. Copyright scholar Pam Samuelson recently investigated the scope of the settlement in an editorial titled “The Audacity of the Google Book Search Settlement,”…