Finally, although air pollution exposures were estimated based on residential postal codes, because of privacy protection, residential postal codes were eliminated from data files after data linkage.
In his masterly 1999 biography of Evans, James R. Mellow writes that the photographer considered himself an "apologetic voyeur" for having violated the unspoken code of subway privacy, and he wanted time to pass to soften the impact of the trespass.
I could also, were I so inclined, use it to browse through the blood tests and X-rays of thousands of complete strangers, tracking biopsy results, guessing at life expectancies and generally shattering every known code of medical privacy and confidentiality to smithereens without ever leaving my chair.
The code would be an updated and more concise version of the code for privacy online (PDF) which is used by the Information Commissioner's Office, whom Vaizey is understood to be meeting today to push his proposal.
The aim of this study was to explore inpatients' perception of dignity in an Italian General Hospital setting through the administration of an anonymous questionnaire based on the main factors of dignity, in accordance with the Italian Nursing Code of Ethics: physical privacy, respect, information and autonomy.
This study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Tartu; data were coded for privacy.
Deibert is the author of Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy and the Dark Side of the Internet, a comprehensive, must-read account of the global surveillance and censorship network that the governments of the world have unleashed on the planet.
However, the author of Black Code: Surveillance, Privacy and the Dark Side of the Internet thinks the spy industry has suffered a disturbing "inertia" over the past decade sucking up hundreds of millions of records on law-abiding citizens along the way.
The Daily Mirror said it decided not to publish because it felt "it would be in clear breach of the PCC editors' code of practice regarding intrusion of privacy, which we signed up to".
