I
think we are starting to get a picture of behaviors OCR will not
tolerate.
OCR
Imposes a $1.6 Million Civil Money Penalty against Texas Health and
Human Services Commission for HIPAA Violations
… On
June 11, 2015, DADS filed a breach report with OCR stating that the
electronic protected health information (ePHI) of 6,617 individuals
was viewable over the internet, including names, addresses, social
security numbers, and treatment information. The breach occurred
when an internal application was moved from a private, secure server
to a public server and a flaw in the software code allowed access to
ePHI without access credentials. OCR's investigation determined
that, in addition to the impermissible disclosure, DADS failed
to conduct an enterprise-wide risk analysis, and implement
access and audit controls on its information systems and applications
as required by the HIPAA Security Rule. Because
of inadequate audit controls, DADS was unable to determine how many
unauthorized persons accessed individuals' ePHI.
"Covered
entities need to know who can access protected health information in
their custody at all times," said OCR Director Roger Severino.
Perspective.
Census.gov estimates the US population at 330 million. That’s
only 78% DHS.
DHS
will have comprehensive biometric data on more than 250 million
people
“The
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expects
to have face, fingerprint, and iris scans of at least 259 million
people [Quartz
– paywall] in its biometrics database by 2022, according to a
recent
presentation from
the agency’s Office of Procurement Operations reviewed by Quartz.
From the report: That’s
about 40 million more than the agency’s
2017 projections,
which estimated 220 million unique identities by 2022, according to
previous figures cited by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a
San Francisco-based privacy rights nonprofit.
A
slide deck, shared with attendees at an Oct. 30 DHS industry day,
includes a breakdown of what its systems currently contain, as well
as an estimate of what the next few years will bring. The agency is
transitioning from a legacy system called IDENT to a cloud-based
system (hosted by Amazon Web Services) known as Homeland Advanced
Recognition Technology, or HART. The biometrics collection
maintained by DHS is the world’s second-largest, behind only
India’s countrywide biometric ID network in size. The traveler
data kept by DHS is shared with other U.S. agencies, state and local
law enforcement, as well as foreign governments…”
Didn’t
they agree this would be fair? (Why else allow it?) But if the
outcome is not as they expected, perhaps that’s because they (and I
include Google) don’t understand the industry?
EU's
Vestager says Google's antitrust proposal not helping shopping rivals
Alphabet
unit Google’s proposal to create a level playing field for price
comparison shopping rivals to stave off fresh fines has not led to
more traffic for its competitors, Europe’s antitrust chief said on
Thursday.
European
Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager two years ago slapped
Google with a 2.4-billion-euro ($2.65 billion)fine for favoring its
own price comparison shopping service and told it to stop its
anti-competitive business practices.
The
world’s most popular internet search engine subsequently offered to
allow competitors to bid for advertising space at the top of a search
page, giving them the chance to compete on equal terms.
Perspective.
Is this the new minimum offer?
This
State’s 50-Year Bet on Big Tech Could Cost Hundreds of Millions of
Dollars
… a
new law he helped pass, which eliminates sales taxes for an
unprecedented five decades for a company that commits at least $750
million to a data center in his state.
… Although
finished data centers provide relatively few jobs, a construction
boom is an attractive prospect in parts of the deindustrializing
Midwest with few alternatives. Facebook has said it would spend
$16 billion on
data centers in 2019 alone; Google,
$13 billion,
and Apple,
$4.5 billion.
Together, these three companies, plus Microsoft and Amazon, accounted
for the bulk of the $119 billion invested in data centers worldwide
last year, according to Synergy Research Group.
…
In
Indiana, where the state sales tax is 7%, the new law guarantees at
least $70 million in savings to a company that commits to building a
$1 billion facility. The law also waives taxes on electricity use,
worth additional millions in savings, and municipalities are certain
to add further incentives as they bid against one another.
I
expect “safe living” Apps, like those “safe driving” Apps
insurance companies offer. And for the same reason. If they can
confirm that you will cost them 50% less than the average insured,
they will happily reduce you premium by 25%.
How
Entrepreneurs Can Take on the Future of Aging Using Artificial
Intelligence
Thanks
to daily advances in healthcare technology, people are living longer
and longer. As a nation, we're nearing a historic first: It is
predicted
by the year 2034 that
there will be more people over the age of 65 than people under the
age of 18.
When
highways are limited to self-driving cars, will you be willing to
retrofit your 1926 Bugatti in order to drive on them?
Ghost
raises $63.7 million to develop an aftermarket kit that gives cars
self-driving capabilities
… Ghost today emerged from stealth after
spending two years and change developing an aftermarket self-driving
kit to retrofit existing cars. It has raised $63.7 million in
capital to date from Founders Fund’s Keith Rabois, Khosla Ventures’
Vinod Khosla, and Sutter Hill Ventures’ Mike Speiser, and it’s
promising compatibility with 20 “popular” car models from 2012
onward when its product launches next year.
Perhaps something for my next presentation Rubric?
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