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Inside Facebook’s Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where "˜Camel Toes’ are More Offensive Than "˜Crushed Heads’ - 22 février 2012
Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, is pissed at Facebook. Last year he spent a few weeks training to screen illicit Facebook content through an outsourcing firm, for which he was paid a measly $1 an hour. He’s still fuming over it.
"It’s humiliating. They are just exploiting the third world," Derkaoui (...)
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Statement on privacy breach at Capital Health - 16 février 2012
This week Capital Health is contacting 105 people whose personal health information was inappropriately accessed by a former employee. Everyone who is affected will hear directly from Capital Health and we will be available to discuss the details of these breaches of confidentiality with them.
Capital Health (...)
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Advice for the Ill, and Points for the Doctors - 5 février 2012
Every sphere of life, it seems, can be turned into a game "” including the way physicians offer medical advice and build a public reputation. HealthTap, a start-up based in Palo Alto, Calif., has brought the vocabulary and mechanics of games to medicine.
On the HealthTap Web site, users can seek all kinds of free (...)
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Gosport podiatrist’s confidential records laptop stolen - 4 février 2012
A laptop containing personal and medical information of up to 1,500 people has been stolen from a podiatry clinic in Hampshire.
The Zoostorm laptop, containing unencrypted data, was taken from the Walking On Air clinic in Gosport on Tuesday.
Podiatrist Natasha Townsend said the laptop did have a password.
The (...)
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IU Health Goshen data hit by virus - 3 février 2012
Indiana University Health Goshen said Tuesday that a computer virus was recently found in one of its offsite servers housing its consumer website.
After discovering the virus on Dec. 22, IU Health Goshen immediately began securing the site and hired an Internet security firm to conduct an investigation. That firm (...)
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Health Care Company Alerts Hoosiers About Privacy Leak - 12 janvier 2012
2,700 MDwise Members’ Medical Record Leaked To Internet
Members of an Indiana non-profit health care program were alerted on Wednesday about a possible privacy leak within the organization’s records.
MDwise officials said the personal records of 2,700 Hoosiers covered by the Healthy Indiana Plan, Care Select and (...)
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Facebook : la FTC sommée d’enquêter sur la Timeline - 10 janvier 2012
Aux USA, l’Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) a envoyé un courrier à la Federal Trade Commission (FTC) pour demander à l’organisme d’enquêter sur une possible violation de la vie privée liée à la nouvelle Timeline de Facebook, qui fait remonter des informations jusque-là enfuies dans le compte de l’utilisateur.
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La CNIL sanctionne une déclaration mensongère d’un hébergeur de données de santé - 9 janvier 2012
La CNIL a prononcé un avertissement à l’encontre d’un hébergeur de données de santé, au sujet d’une déclaration mensongère contenue dans son dossier de demande d’agrément. La société prétendait crypter les données médicales hébergées, ce qui était inexact.
Le code de la santé publique impose aux personnes physiques ou morales (...)
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Server hacked at OSU Medical Center - 9 janvier 2012
Ohio State University Medical Center has notified 30 patients and 150 students that a hacker might have accessed their names, medical information and/or Social Security numbers.
Officials said there is no indication that any personal information was taken or that the incident has resulted in identity theft, but (...)
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Staffing Agency Employee at Providence Holy Cross in California Allegedly Posts Patient’s Record on Facebook - 4 janvier 2012
A staffing agency employee who worked at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, Calif., allegedly posted a patient’s medical information on Facebook to make fun of her and her medical condition, according to a Los Angeles Daily News report.
A printout of the employee’s Facebook page showed a photo (...)
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If it’s Friday, it’s time to reset almost 18 million passwords ? - 31 décembre 2011
Care2 has notified users of a security breach. In its FAQ, the online community said that it discovered the breach on December 27, but as of December 28, "We are currently unable to determine the full extent of the security breach." The site is forcing a password reset and urging members to change their passwords (...)
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Survey : What Was The Top #Privacy Story of 2011 ? - 27 décembre 2011
Privacy was in the news a lot in 2011. After asking for suggestions at the Twitter Privacy Chat, on Google+ and Facebook, and on a couple of mailing lists, we’ve assembled a list of 17 top privacy stories :
Pervasive use of surveillance tools : surveillance cameras, license plate scanners, TSA expands beyond (...)
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UMMC, MSDH inform patients of personal health information breach - 22 décembre 2011
The University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Mississippi State Department of Health are informing nearly 1,500 participants in research studies of a breach of their personal health information.
A UMMC faculty member had been assigned a laptop for use in the studies. On Oct. 31, a UMMC employee reported (...)
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Digital Data on Patients Raises Risk of Breaches - 19 décembre 2011
One afternoon last spring, Micky Tripathi received a panicked call from an employee. Someone had broken into his car and stolen his briefcase and company laptop along with it.
So began a nightmare that cost Mr. Tripathi’s small nonprofit health consultancy nearly $300,000 in legal, private investigation, credit (...)
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WA : Unencrypted USB drive with patient data and Social Security numbers reported missing - 12 décembre 2011
Gene S. J. Liaw, M.D., a Washington physician, reported an incident involving a lost device to the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services and they summarized the incident this way :
An unencrypted USB drive used to store patient information could not be found in the office. The device contained data for 1,105 (...)
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Contra Costa County warns of patient privacy breach - 7 décembre 2011
Contra Costa officials scrambling to correct a privacy breach to patients sent out notices Friday to thousands of county hospital patients whose names were published inadvertently in a public document.
The letter, which was sent out by the county and viewable on its website, was mailed to residents who owed money (...)
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Apple iPhone search Siri helps users find prostitutes and Viagra but not an abortion - 4 décembre 2011
Apple is facing its first major controversy over well-received voice software Siri, after the cutting-edge iPhone search service refused to direct people to abortion services
Siri - one of the most popular features of Apple’s new iPhone 4S - drew the ire of bloggers and the National Abortion and Reproductive (...)
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Data Privacy, Put to the Test - 1er mai 2011
Big Oil. Big Food. Big Pharma. To the catalog of corporate "bigs" that worry a lot of us little people, add this : Big Data.
It was not a good week for those who guard their privacy. First, we learned that Apple and Google have been using our smartphones to collect location data. Then Sony acknowledged that its (...)
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How Twitter engineers outwitted Mubarak in one weekend - 6 février 2011
The way Twitter managed to get past Egypt’s internet shutdown was the perfect example of a crisis breeding innovation
When they first came to office, the Obama team had a mantra : "Never waste a good crisis". They then spent the next two years doing exactly the opposite. In the past few months we’ve seen a couple (...)
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NHS medical record sharing : When ’anonymised’ isn’t anonymous - 4 février 2011
The process of anonymisation aims to take personal data and make the subject of that data unidentifiable, but it is not always that simple.
As the NHS gears up its IT upgrade, it may face privacy disasters that the web industry knows only too well.
In 2006, AOL, then more of a force in web search, publicly (...)
