3. Proposals for reforming the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act include requirements for auditing surveillance programs and reporting the results to Congress — including how many Americans have had their conversations recorded and preserved.
The UK is being watched by a network of 1.85m CCTV cameras, the vast majority of which are run by private companies, according to the only large-scale audit of surveillance cameras ever conducted.
Stillbirths first became notifiable in Scotland in 1940 [ 12] and in 1954 the classification developed by Sir Dugald Baird and his colleagues in Aberdeen for the purpose of audit and surveillance was published [ 13].
This view accords with Strathern's suggestion that "current practices of audit and surveillance are far from 'indifferent'; on the contrary they present the face of obsessive concern (care/interference)" [ 34].
The requirement for patient consent or next of kin consent was waived because the patients were unconscious, the data was observational data from our routine practice, the data was collected for audit, service surveillance and improvement purposes and the data was anonymised.
His current research interests include privacy in health and genetic databases, auditing and surveillance in electronic medical record systems, and the design and execution of model-based clinical information systems.
Congress's watchdog, the Government Accountability Office GAOO), is statutorily prohibited from auditing these surveillance programs -- a grave omission that I tried to correct when I served on HPSCI.
There are indications that even audits and surveillance cameras are not enough to preserve good biosecurity routines in the long term [ 15] and that personality traits as well as education and experience are important for compliance with biosecurity protocols [ 27].
As some hospitals lack the laboratory equipment necessary to culture C. difficile, the investigators hypothesized that if there was a correlation or association between MRSA and C. difficile at the sample level, consequently, hospitals that conducted environmental audits or surveillance for MRSA could reasonably presume that the surface was also contaminated with C. difficile.
According a Katherine Spring, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Board of Trade, the board sent a letter to the commission in late 1997, supporting the use of Internet technology, but withholding endorsement of FutureCom's application "because it lacked information about the audit trail and surveillance".
