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When the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act became law last year as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, it extended the HIPAA privacy and security r... More >
Thursday the news broke that security expert Ron Bowes created a Web crawler that successfully -- and legally -- harvested information from the Facebook profiles of 100 million of the social-networ... More >
You'd think I've written so much about online privacy I'd be tired of it. And frankly, for a split-second every now and then, I am. But it's important, and it's interesting, so I press on. F... More >
Though the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office first indicated its intent to validate U.S. Patent 5,787,449 a few months ago, the certificate reaffirming the patent's validity was issued Tuesday. He... More >
With Google Apps for Government, the company that seems to have its fingers everywhere hopes to move further into the government sector. The $50-per-user-per-year bundle includes GMail, Google Docs... More >
When you see the phrase "health care IT," what comes to mind? If you work in or around the health care industry, It's probably "meaningful use." In the HITECH Act segment of the American Recovery a... More >
It's clear that the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act will usher in a lot of changes. There will be new rules for derivatives trading, a new agency focused on consumer prote... More >
After Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg clarified on national television Wednesday night that he did not sign a contract giving Paul Ceglia an ownership stake in the company, Facebook itself said the c... More >
Who caught Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's interview with ABC World News' Diane Sawyer Wednesday? It was apparently timed to coincide with the social-networking company's announcement that it has r... More >
President Obama signed the financial reform bill into law Wednesday, according to The Boston Globe . The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act "represent[s] the strongest consu... More >
In March, La Quadrature du Net published a draft version of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement somehow obtained from closed-door negotiations between the United States and nine other countries... More >
Just when you thought things couldn't get more interesting for Facebook, an attorney for the social-networking giant admitted in open court Tuesday that founder Mark Zuckerberg did have a contract wi... More >
Like my coworker so aptly put it yesterday, "Everyone into the e-medical records pool!" Iron Mountain is just the latest tech company to show interest in the rapidly expanding e-health records indu... More >
Just in case anyone was really wondering anymore, the Chinese government announced Tuesday that it renewed Google's Internet content provider's license because the company had "pledged to obey cens... More >
Consumer Watchdog wants a congressional hearing on what it calls Google's "Wi-Spying," which I presume is short for Wi-Fi spying. The California-based public interest group is calling for th... More >
Almost a month ago now U.S. lawmakers asked Apple to explain exactly what happens with the user location data it collects so that certain Apple services, like Mobile Me, can work properly. At the t... More >
I've read and written ad nauseum about privacy - particularly within the context of a social network. But what if, instead of finding ways to protect customer information, a company wants to ... More >
Health care IT is hot. We've known since before he was elected that health care reform and electronic health records were high on President Obama's agenda. But now that there are regulations on the... More >
Remember the $22 billion in federal funds that Congress set aside in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to "advance the use of health information techno... More >
Democrats in the U.S. Senate found the votes they needed to pass financial regulatory reform Thursday. CBS News reports the changes in the bill have been a high priority on the Obama administrati... More >
Thursday was the last day to submit comments on the Federal Communication's Commission's proposed "third way" compromise for broadband regulation, an approach in which the agency suggests identif... More >
Facebook is being sued for an 84 percent ownership stake. When I first saw the story Wednesday, I thought, "Who is this guy kidding?" But as time passes and more publications pick it up, I'm b... More >
In City of Ontario v. Quon, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Ontario, Calif., Police Department did not violate Quon's rights when it searched and read the text messages he sent and receive... More >
Online auction site eBay is facing a $3.8 billion patent infringement suit, thanks to its subsidiary, PayPal. According to CNET News , XPRT Ventures alleges PayPal "knowingly incorporated" technolo... More >
The goal of electronic medical records systems is to increase the efficiency of doctor's offices, hospitals and other providers and enable them to provide higher quality care. In theory, if all the... More >
The idea of electronic medical records sounds great: Everything a patient needs her doctors and pharmacist and insurance company to know, all in one place and easily accessible from just about anywhe... More >
Just as the push toward electronic health records ramps up and the quest for federal incentives begins, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights and the National Coordinat... More >
Of course SCO is appealing the final ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah in its intellectual property dispute with Novell. This is the company that attempted to sell off par... More >
Four years after its noteworthy $612 million intellectual property settlement with BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, NTP is at it yet again, this time suing six of the industry's top cell phone ... More >
Google is someone will predict that we have entered into cyber war in China. In a one-sentence update Friday to a June 28th blog post, SVP David Drummond said: We are very pleased that the govern... More >
Oh, look - Facebook is in trouble in Germany. PCWorld.com reports the social-networking site is facing a fine in Hamburg, Germany for retaining the personal information of individuals witho... More >
Last week, Google announced it had reached an agreement to acquire ITA Software. Google will buy the Boston-based travel data provider for $700 million in cash in an effort to disrupt the travel in... More >
As much as they fuss and then fine those they oversee when a data breach or similar misstep occurs, sometimes it helps to remember that even regulators are only human. Nothing demonstrates the conc... More >
If you've followed this blog at all in the last year, you've more than likely come to realize that online privacy is one topic for which I routinely drag out my personal soapbox. I have rare... More >
Nearly a week ago , Google was waiting to see if the powers-that-be in China were satisfied enough with its efforts to retain an Internet content provider's license that they would actually renew th... More >
Before the holiday, TIME reported that Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., has announced her support for the financial reform package expected to go to a Senate floor vote when Congress reconvenes afte... More >
With an eye toward improving transparency in government and as part of its effort to "modernize and streamline how it collects, uses and disseminates data," the Federal Communications Commission lau... More >
The House of Representatives passed the financial regulation reform bill Thursday by a vote of 237 to 192, but the $19 billion fee on banks and other financial institutions to which Sen. Scott Brow... More >
As of July 1, Finland is the first country on the planet where every citizen has the right to high-speed broadband Internet access. According to msnbc.com , the goal is for every Finn to have a ... More >
The financial regulatory overhaul legislation that recently came out of a joint conference committee passed the House of Representatives Wednesday by a vote of 237 to 192. The Big Money reports ... More >
Continuing its effort to calm user concerns and satisfy regulators, Facebook is extending its privacy controls to the third-party applications users add to their Facebook accounts. Facebook ... More >
After the U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday that the portion of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that set up the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board was unconstitutional because the Securities and Exch... More >
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