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Health care organizations can self-assess whether a technology snafu needs to be disclosed.
Physicians won’t have to notify patients of every breach of privacy regarding their records, under a rule finalized by the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
A provision in the Breach Notification for Unsecured Protected Health Information rule allows health care organizations to self-assess the level of potential harm when a breach occurs and determine whether notification is warranted. Originally the rule indicated physicians and hospitals would have to notify patients of any kind of privacy breach, regardless of whether it caused harm.
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POMONA, Calif.—Cal Poly Pomona says personal information for hundreds of student applicants was made available on the Internet for five years.University officials say Social Security numbers, home addresses and other information for as many as 355 applicants were inadvertently left in a publicly accessible computer folder from 2003 until November 2008.
A former applicant found the mistake while searching for information on himself.
The school says even after the data was removed from a university server, some of it remained available through Google until a few months ago.
Last week, the school contacted Google to purge the information and sent letters to the applicants, urging them to contact credit reporting agencies.
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EU Commissioner Viviane Reding says that the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) must continue “as a unique forum where we can engage in open, non-binding and multi-stakeholder dialogue”.
Since my participation at the first forum in Athens in 2006, the IGF has continued to show its value. The consistently high number of participants at the IGF, as well as the quality of the discussions, demonstrates the need for such a forum and is a mark of its success.
It is a unique forum where the global Internet Community can engage in open, non-binding, multi-stakeholder dialogue, in order to examine and try to address the many issues that arise from our heavy reliance on the internet, in our homes, schools, businesses, universities, research labs and governments.
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East Africans welcomed the undersea fiber optic cables with much excitement and great expectations. When it comes to on line business transactions, concerns about cyber security, legal and ethical issues start to come up. The question of privacy must be addressed. Constitutions, legislations and past court decisions have however indicated that the right to privacy is not absolute and that privacy must be balanced against the need of society.
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