In commemoration of the American Library Association’s inaugural Choose Privacy Week celebration, I will be joining a panel discussion hosted bt the UWM School of Information Studies and UWM Libraries on: Emerging Privacy and Ethical Challenges for Libraries in the 2.0 Era Tuesday, May 4, 2010 3:00pm – 4:30pm Golda Meir Library, West Wing,...
I believe that a lot of bad privacy decisions are made by well-intentioned people who don’t understand either how various technologies work, or who don’t understand the easiest, cheapest, and most effective way to protect people’s privacy is to limit the amount of data they collect and retain. The City of Bozeman, Montana, appears...
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act includes privacy and security requirements that extend beyond HIPAA. The consequences for breach also go to a whole new level. Are you ready for new definitions of “Personal Health Information”? Do you know about the new breach notification requirements, which have lower thresholds...
Earlier this year, Justice Scalia told the Institute of American and Talmudic Law’s midwinter conference that, “Discussions of privacy rights in the digital era should distinguish between such confidential data as medical records and information that might be personal but is easy to find out.” He further noted, “Every single datum about my life...