1. What type of security breaches of medical record are commonly today?
-Nowadays, the most common type of security breaches of medical record is when the computer or hard disk was stolen along with it the patients file.
2. What measures are being taken by the government and private industry to safeguard EHR's?
-The government has the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which is an act to protect the confidentiality of the healthcare user and data.
3. How do you think the implementation of ARRA will affect the privacy of our healthcare and personal data? What breaches do you foresee? How can they be forestalled?
-ARRA has some issues regarding the privacy of the users health care and data.The security of the users data should always be considered.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. How does Google's business model use personal data?
Google is firmly committed to the privacy of our advertisers and users. [ While Google does add a cookie to a user's computer when he/she clicks on an ad, this cookie expires in 30 days, and Google does not associate a user's search activity with his/her ad click history. Further, Google does not collect or track personally identifying information, and does not reveal individual information to third parties. Users who do not wish to participate in tracking activities can easily disable Google's conversion tracking cookie in their Internet browser's user preferences settings. These users will not be included in your conversion tracking statistics. ]
2. What do you think are the major privacy concerns raised by Google's business model and applications?
-the major privacy concerns raised by Google's business model and applications is there technology was very open to the public and so others can sneak on it.
3. Do you think Google has taken adequate measures to protect its user's privacy? Explain your answer.
-I think if you care about your privacy, don't put your data on Google .
“Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it… We don’t need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.” - Eric Schmidt, former chief executive of Google, October 1st, 2010
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