I’ve been meaning to comment on media coverage of the breach involving The Surgeons of Lake County. While I’m glad my blog entry was able to bring it to the mainstream media’s attention, I was concerned to see some sites and professionals I respect treat it as either a novel crime or as part of…
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Facebook Now Knows What You're Buying at Drug Stores (updated)
Rebecca Greenfield writes: In an attempt to give advertisers more information about the effectiveness of ads, Facebook has partnered with Datalogix, a company that “can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores,” as The Financial Times‘s Emily Steel and April Dembosky explain. Advertisers have complained that Facebook doesn’t give them any way to…
Study reveals teenage patients' attitude towards social media and privacy
A study of how chronically ill teenagers manage their privacy found that teen patients spend a great deal of time online and guard their privacy very consciously. “Not all my friends need to know”: a qualitative study of teenage patients, privacy and social media, was published this summer in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics…
An Alert System for Security Breaches
Nicole Perlroth reports that there are now some services that will alert you if your login credentials or information shows up in data dump from a hack: LastPass, a service for managing passwords, said on Tuesday that it had partnered with PwnedList, a database of leaked usernames and passwords, to alert customers if a Web site…
Hearing today in 9th Circuit tackles DNA privacy (updated)
Rebecca Jeschke of EFF writes: Wednesday at 10 am, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hear oral argument in Haskell v. Harris, examining crucial questions of DNA privacy. If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, this is a unique opportunity to hear debate over how your genetic information can be collected, stored,…
New Texas privacy law adds more hassle, expense
John K. Wisniewski, the CEO/executive director of the Bexar County Medical Society, is not happy with Texas’s new law (HB 300) that goes into effect this month. The law goes beyond what HIPAA requires: The changes begin with a broadened definition of “covered entities,” to include almost anyone who handles protected health information. This may…