http://www.phiprivacy.net/?p=1789
Balancing medical privacy and criminal prosecution
By Dissent, January 9, 2010 12:57 pm
If HIPAA is violated, can any evidence obtained be used against you in a criminal proceeding?
According to a case in Maryland: yes.
John Wesley Hall Jr. of FourthAmendment.com writes:
Defendant’s BAC [blood alcohol level] level for DUI [driving under the influence] was obtained in violation of HIPAA since a trial subpoena was issued by the clerk without a court order, but the court refuses to suppress the evidence as a result because HIPAA does not require it. United States v. Elliott, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 122041 (D. Md. December 23, 2009):
Is it worth defending laws that Facebookers don't care about? (Yes. We have lots of laws that (children/animals/drug addicts) don't care about.)
The Gradual Erosion of the Right To Privacy
Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 09, @12:48PM from the can-we-blame-all-the-world's-ills-on-social-media-yet dept.
PeteV writes
"There is an interesting article on the BBC's website based around research carried out by Dr. Kieron O'Hara of Southampton University. He points out that under British law, an individual's right to privacy is being eroded by the behavior of those who have no qualms about broadcasting every intimate detail of their life online (via social networking sites) because the privacy law is predicated in part upon the concept of a 'reasonable expectation of privacy.' I think his request 'for people to be more aware of the impact on society of what they publish online' is likely to fall on deaf ears, but in effect what he is saying is that the changing habits of the world-wide community of social networkers is likely to have an effect upon English law and how it is interpreted. Given that the significant bulk of social networkers are American, this might mean 'American behavior' could cause changes in the interpretation of English law (which is not to say English people don't also post their intimate details on Facebook)."
(Related) ...only faster. What happens when some nut uses the equipment on the plane to attempt to make it fall out of the sky? (e.g. Use an oxygen cylinder to knock out a window?)
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=6869
Ca: Privacy boss pans scans
January 9, 2010 by Dissent Filed under Featured Headlines, Surveillance
Michael Platt reports on Alberta Privacy Commissioner Frank Work’s comments on airport body scanners and where the technology is going. There are some great quotes in the article:
“The system is still prone to failure, so let’s say the next guy packs his ass with however many grams of (plastic explosive) he can shove up there, and either successfully or unsuccessfully detonates it. What do they do next?” said Work.
“How do they trump full body scans? There actually is a device called the BOSS — the Body Orifice Security Scanner — where you sit in a plastic armchair and it can detect plastic or metal in body orifices. Is this next?”
[...]
“At what point do we say, ‘Holy crap man, you’re patting me down, you’ve got pictures of me naked, you’ve got me squatting on a chair, and you’ve taken my water bottle away’. I mean at what point is enough, enough?”
Read more in The Edmonton Sun. Great thanks to Sharon Polsky, President of Amina Consulting Corp. for sending this link.
Interesting. You can be certain of guilt, but it still can prove your innocence.
Scientists and Lawyers Argue For Open US DNA Database
Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 09, @10:29AM from the they-must-have-caught-an-episode-of-csi dept.
chrb writes
"New Scientist has an article questioning the uniqueness of DNA profiles. 41 scientists and lawyers recently published a high-profile Nature article (sub. required) arguing that the FBI should release its complete CODIS database. The request follows research on the already released Arizona state DNA database (a subset of CODIS) which showed a surprisingly large number of matches between the profiles of different individuals, including one between a white man and a black man. The group states that the assumption that a DNA profile represents a unique individual, with only a minuscule probability of a secondary match, has never been independently verified on a large sample of DNA profiles. The new requests follow the FBI's rejection of similar previous requests."
This book has been out for a while, but it is now in the libraries (I was able to reserve a copy just seconds ago)
http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/023210.html
January 09, 2010
Book Review - The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security
The New York Review of Books - Who's in Big Brother's Database? By James Bamford - The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the, National Security Agency, by Matthew M. Aid, Bloomsbury.
"...this library expects few visitors. It's being built by the ultra-secret National Security Agency — which is primarily responsible for "signals intelligence," the collection and analysis of various forms of communication—to house trillions of phone calls, e-mail messages, and data trails: Web searches, parking receipts, bookstore visits, and other digital "pocket litter." Lacking adequate space and power at its city-sized Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters, the NSA is also completing work on another data archive, this one in San Antonio, Texas, which will be nearly the size of the Alamodome. Just how much information will be stored in these windowless cybertemples? A clue comes from a recent report prepared by the MITRE Corporation, a Pentagon think tank. "As the sensors associated with the various surveillance missions improve," says the report, referring to a variety of technical collection methods, "the data volumes are increasing with a projection that sensor data volume could potentially increase to the level of Yottabytes (1024 Bytes) by 2015."["Data Analysis Challenges" (December 2008), p. 13.] Roughly equal to about a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, numbers beyond Yottabytes haven't yet been named. [I hereby propose the name Bobo-byte. Bob] Once vacuumed up and stored in these near-infinite "libraries," the data are then analyzed by powerful infoweapons, [Cute, but misleading. Bob] supercomputers running complex algorithmic programs, to determine who among us may be—or may one day become—a terrorist. In the NSA's world of automated surveillance on steroids, every bit has a history and every keystroke tells a story."
From the CES. I can see this as a second screen too. Watch the video!
The interactive projector that turns any surface into a Minority Report-style touch screen
By Claire Bates Last updated at 12:22 AM on 09th January 2010
Yes, it's a hacking tool (In public Beta)
Speccy – An Advanced System Information Tool For Your PC
By Karl L. Gechlik on Jan. 9th, 2010
… Speccy gives you an awesome amount of advanced system information about your PC from a tiny portable application.
… It is available in both a portable and an installable version.
http://www.piriform.com/speccy
For my Presentation students (See? I already know about these, so be careful to properly cite any you copy.)
5 PowerPoint Search Engines To Seek Out Publicly Available Presentations
By Saikat Basu on Jan. 9th, 2010
Slideworld.org is the sister site of the last one and mostly geared towards medical presentations.
Eventually this will be useful. Grab it now!
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/convertvid-holiday/
Giveaway of the Day - ConvertVid
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