Far from taking a reasonable approach to protecting the privacy of people's medical information, the Bush administration is proposing to gut the first-ever federal medical privacy rule ("Modifying Medical Privacy," Topics of The Times, May 20).
Privacy topics are discussed in the media every day, often in connection with new and emerging technologies.
This will be run via explainer videos (featuring the likes of cartoon chameleons) dropped into the News Feed to — as Facebook tells it — give users "information on important privacy topics like how to control what information Facebook uses to show you ads, how to review and delete old posts, and even what it means to delete your account".
This also brings up the personal privacy topic.
However innocuous, discussions about any privacy topic can get the company in hot water.
Meanwhile, the privacy issue is a hot topic among consumer groups and legislators.
The past few weeks have made the mobile privacy issue a hot-button topic outside of the tech sphere, and the attention doesn't just end with California's AG — two congressmen sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook posing questions about user data privacy, and the White House will be holding an online meeting tomorrow to accompany the release of a white paper on online privacy.
In the burgeoning field of medical sequencing, this principle has been tempered somewhat by considerations of patient privacy (a topic for another day), but as a rule, openness in genomics research continues to be both integral and essential.
P12 If I can argue the statements in descending order of frequency, the main topic is security, data privacy, legislation, a topic where many people cannot talk about it and present it as a defensive reaction.
This article summarizes the issues raised by the first phase of Project HealthDesign projects, categorizing them into four topics: privacy and confidentiality, data security, decision support, and HIPAA and related legal-regulatory requirements.
Young people's views on privacy are complicated topics to nail down, but what this report does shed light on is just how important dealing with user privacy concerns is for tech companies — at least from a public relations standpoint.
