Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Irish bank and VISA develop a disposable credit card

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Here's a product that should reduce some fears about shopping online: An Irish bank and VISA international have developed and tested a n...

Appealing to customers' sense of privacy

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While watching CNN 's coverage of the hurricane damage, I caught an ad for a company named e-loan . "Protecting Customer Privacy...

Is HIPAA, the patients' privacy law, getting in the way of police work?

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Today's Gainesville Sun asks the question: Is HIPAA, the patients' privacy law, getting in the way of police work . The answer is ...

The role of banks in fighting ID theft

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Bank Systems & Technology is running a very good article on the role of banks in fighting identity theft. The intended audience is bank...

New charges in ChoicePoint case

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A grand jury in Los Angeles has returned a new indictment against Olatunji Oluwatosin , charging the man with twenty-two counts of identity...

EPIC petitions FCC on sale of phone records

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Last month, I blogged about the fact that a number of companies online are selling telephone records without the consent or knowledge of the...

In the US, not all medical info is private

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Another good link from HIPAA Blog : Bankrate.com, a publication for the banking industry, ran an article yesterday on what is not covered by...
Tuesday, August 30, 2005

"Prefetching" webpages

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For some time, Google has had a feature that allows you to search for a term and automatically be redirected to the top scoring page. It...
Monday, August 29, 2005

US Federal Data Miners Urged To Better Address Citizen Privacy

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The US GAO is chastising a number of US government agencies for not following privacy laws when using citizen information for data mining. F...

Teenagers and access to their own health information

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HIPAA Blog is pointing to a very interesting and lengthy article from the Wall Street Journal (but reprinted in the Pittsburg Post Gazette)...