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'Blue Button' Technology May Give You More Control Of Your Health Information
Get a group of tech-savvy physicians and electronic medical records experts in a room, ask them about the way forward, and the subject of the Blue Button is sure to come up. Read More »
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Ad Industry, Privacy Advocates Spar Over 'Do Not Track'
Lawmakers and the Federal Trade Commission are being lobbied to intervene to help settle differences between some advertising industry representatives and privacy advocates over how to implement a “do-not-track” option giving consumers the choice of whether they want to be tracked online. Read More »
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Brokers Use ‘Billions’ Of Data Points To Profile Americans
...information and much, much more is being quietly collected, analyzed and distributed by the nation’s burgeoning data-broker industry, which uses billions of individual data points to produce detailed portraits of virtually every American consumer, the Federal Trade Commission reported Tuesday...
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FTC Chair Promises Robust Regulation Of Big Data
Edith Ramirez, the Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission laid out the case for strong consumer protections regulating the private industry’s use of big data, as the agency asks Congress for the power to level civil fines against businesses for weak consumer data security. Read More »
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Health, Fitness Apps Sending User Data To Third Parties
The top 20 most popular health, wellness and fitness apps, including WebMD Health, are actively sharing user data with as many as 70 third-party companies, according to a blog post from web analytics and privacy group Evidon. Read More »
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NSA and Your Healthcare Information
...Edward Snowden has made no mention in his recent revelations that medical records were captured in the NSA's dragnet searches, though medical records have been targeted by the intelligence community in the past... Read More »
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U.S. Regulator Urges Law To Force Disclosures By Data Brokers
Companies known as data brokers collect and sell information about "nearly all" U.S. consumers, drawing potentially harmful conclusions about them largely without their knowledge, U.S. regulators said on Tuesday.
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Want A Cloud Where You Call The Shots? Consider ownCloud
Nervous about the NSA, PRISM and your public cloud? Not sure you want to put all your data eggs in one Amazon Web Services zone basket? Read More »
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Who is spying on you? And do you care?
Several of our interns and younger editorial staff at Open Health News (OHN) have made a point of collecting and posting news clips about NSA and government spying on web sites. Read More »
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