Everyone, from the Prime Minister and Privacy Commis-sioner of Canada to veterans and
their families, are crying foul over the alarming breach of Gulf War veteran Captain Sean …

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E167 her office to protect Canadians from online abuses by Facebook and Google, but she …

In a recent survey by the California Healthcare Foundation, approximately half of United
States adults expressed concern that a shift to computer-based medical record systems" …

A PATIENT has a right to keep personal medical information confidential. The right is
paramount and nonnegotiable, says a Boston psychiatrist. Furthermore, ensuring the privacy …

IF PRIVACY IS NOT AN EXTINCT PHENOMENON, IT CER-tainly is an endangered one.
Entrepreneurs—often us-ing questionable tactics—offer access to private data about …

There is little quarrel that access by medical and health policy researchers to medical
records and claims data has spurred advances in quality and access to medical treatment …

It all officially began five years ago, when President Clinton and Congress recognized the
need for national patient record privacy standards and enacted the Health Insurance …

PROLOGUE: Irish author George Bernard Shaw once observed during a speech in New
York that Americans have “no sense of privacy.[They] do not know what it means. There is …

Federal privacy regulations issued by the Clinton administration on December 28, 2000, and
adopted by the Bush administration on April 14, 2001, perpe trate a fraud on the American …

" Privacy" and" confidentiality" of medical data and records in health care and biomedical
research on human subjects are the stuff of myth and illusion, often more symbolic than …