The abuse may happen through people acquiring unauthorized access to the information, but also through health personnel acquiring access by falsely or unjustifiably claiming a situation to be among the waivers where concurrent patient consent is not necessary.
But the platform has come under increasing scrutiny for its questionable ethics and lax internal regulation most recently, when Cambridge Analytica, a private firm hired by the Trump administration, acquired access to the private data of millions of Facebook users.
The heist was accomplished not by tunnels or explosives, but by acquiring the access codes for the Swift global messaging system, which is what banks use to securely pass payment orders to one another.
The consumer electronics giant Thomson Multimedia of France beefed up its range of products providing fast Internet access by acquiring the modem division of Alcatel S.A. for 456 million euros, ($386 million).
But by acquiring Basis, it gains access to a team that has built one of the most powerful and comprehensive wearables to date, which it then can set upon its own designs.
By acquiring AMG, 605 enjoys access to data across roughly a half dozen MVPD's.
First Avenue is trying to bolster its broadband wireless access service by acquiring Teligent's 24-gigahertz spectrum licenses, fixed wireless broadband operations and radio assets.
In addition, the union reiterated concern over Verizon's move to expand in the high-speed Internet access business by acquiring NorthPoint Communications.
The Digital Insight Corporation, a financial services technology company, said yesterday that it was entering the online lending market by acquiring the privately held AnyTime Access in a $140 million stock deal.
In 1994, SBC followed up its acquisition of O'Connor by acquiring Brinson Partners an asset management firm focused on providing access for US institutions to global markets.
