Privacy
News & Legislation
SECURE? VA May Get Own iPhone App For Your Electronic Health Records
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Apple, the company that moved some of its iCloud services to China, now wants access to veterans electronic health records. Apparently, through the Mar-a-Lago...
News & Legislation
Facebook Says It Stopped ‘Top Secret’ Plan To Mine Medical Records, Hashing To De-Anonymize Data
Facebook reportedly shelved one of its “top secret” projects led by Dr. Freddy Abnousi, to correlate anonymized medical records with that of its user...
VA Healthcare
Veterans Affairs Ties CVS For Most Patient Privacy Violations
Patient privacy violations were highest at Veterans Affairs and CVS Health based on the number of federal citations, according to a new report. In response,...
Disability Compensation
Big Data Insider Takes Over Board Of Veterans’ Appeals
A shake-up within the Board of Veterans' Appeals has resulted in former general counsel for big data ChoicePoint Carol DiBattiste taking over at the...
News & Legislation
Veterans Affairs Privacy Violations On The Rise
The Star Tribune published a report about an epic increase in privacy violations by Department of Veterans Affairs including sending vets’ records to the...
Veteran Health Care
Veterans Affairs Privacy Violations Exposed
Shocking increases in Department of Veterans Affairs’ privacy violations were included in ProPublica coverage of a national question seeking to discover how secure our...
Ben's Blog
VA Records Request Fees Demystified
Lately, a ton of veterans have been writing in with problems requesting VA records from the Department of Veterans Affairs with a FOIA or...
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