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Anyone Brushing Off NSA Surveillance Because It's 'Just Metadata' Doesn't Know What Metadata Is
One of the key themes that has come out from the revelations concerning NSA surveillance is a bunch of defenders of the program claiming "it's just metadata." This is wrong on multiple levels. Read More »
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Apple, Facebook, Others Defy Authorities, Notify Users Of Secret Data Demands
Major U.S. technology companies have largely ended the practice of quietly complying with investigators’ demands for e-mail records and other online data, saying that users have a right to know in advance when their information is targeted for government seizure.
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Apple’s Fingerprint ID May Mean You Can’t ‘Take The Fifth’
[...] While there’s a great deal of discussion around the pros and cons of fingerprint authentication — from the hackability of the technique to the reliability of readers — no one’s focusing on the legal effects of moving from PINs to fingerprints. Read More »
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Are Mapbox And OpenStreetMap's Personalised Maps The Future Of Cartography?
People are creating their own maps and databases in a movement called open-source mapping, as Sarah Shearman discovers. Read More »
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Arrest Caught On Google Glass Reignites Privacy Debate
The Fourth of July holiday brought about another first for Google Glass, the computing device that you can wear on your face. Read More »
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As Database Robs Real Pain Patients Of Privacy, Junkies Switch To Heroin
Drug addicts always find a way. Like gun control, most drug laws do nothing but make life harder for law-abiding citizens. Read More »
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As Digital Rights Advocates Mobilize Around The TPP Negotiations, Process Becomes Even Less Transparent
The 15th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement negotiations in New Zealand concluded this week, locking out civil society participation in an unprecedented way. [...] The chapter that EFF and other digital rights groups around the world find alarming covers intellectual property. [...] Read More »
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As Health Records Go Digital, Where They End Up Might Surprise You
Two years ago, Latanya Sweeney created a graphic on the widespread sharing of medical files that shocked lawmakers, technologists and doctors. Sweeney, who founded the Data Privacy Lab at Harvard University, produced a “health data map” that looks like a windshield cracked by a few big rocks...
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At Datajam, Innovators And Entrepreneurs Unleash Open Data For Global Development
A remarkable new tool is becoming increasingly available to help end extreme poverty and ensure dignity and opportunity for people around the world—a tool that few people think about when they consider how to bolster international development efforts. That tool is data, and in particular “open data“. [...] Read More »
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Automated Blue Button, Patient Engagement Are Health Camp Hot Topics
At HealthCamp Boston, patients and patient advocates took over the health information discussion, reciting "e-Patient Dave" deBronkart's 3-year-old mantra: "Gimme my damn data." Read More »
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Back Off, NSA: Blackphone Promises To Be The First Privacy-Focused Smartphone
You may never have heard of Geeksphone, unless you take a particular interest in Firefox OS, but the Spanish manufacturer could be about to garner some global attention. It says it'll launch a new handset at Mobile World Congress next month that will prioritize privacy and security instead of all the intrusions that smartphone users usually have to put up with [...]. Read More »
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Barrett Brown, Political Prisoner Of The Information Revolution
If the US government succeeds in criminalising Brown's posting of a hyperlink, the freedom of all internet users is in jeopardy Read More »
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Battle Heats Up Over HealthCare.gov Paper Trail
A battle over the paper trail documenting the troubled building of the Obama administration’s online health insurance marketplace heated up on Friday as contractors declined to withhold some documents from congressional overseers and the lead investigating committee’s ranking Democrat accused his Republican counterpart of unfair dealing. Read More »
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Big Data And Analytics: The Hero Or The Villain?
As the NSA PRISM debacle continues to unfold and spreads across continents it’s probably good to stop and think about the technology and philosophy behind it all. Because this is big data and analytics in its most potent and controversial form, and it’s certainly not the last time we’ll see this hit the headlines. Read More »
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Big Data's Big Potential In Health Care
Using “big data” to analyze information gathered by health IT is the key to improving medical outcomes, as well as making health care more efficient and cost-effective, say the authors of an article published online recently by the American Health Information Management Association. Read More »
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