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Legislating Social Privacy
July 30, 2010
There’s a great deal of talk these days about privacy and social media. Specifically, services like Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other popular social networking platforms are coming under increased scrutiny over their privacy policies and data sharing practices. Permalink

When Privileged Access is no longer a Privilege
July 19, 2010
I just read an interesting multi-part investigative report in the Washington Post about how intelligence gathering – and the bureaucracy that has risen since September 11, 2001 to facilitate the harvest and analysis of that information – has spun beyond the federal government’s control, not to mention its ability to make use of the sheer abundance of information. Permalink

Information Governance in the Cloud
July 15, 2010
Just a brief note to bring our recent webinar to your attention. I presented Information Governance in the Cloud along with the good people at Symantec. Permalink

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Ponemon Survey on Healthcare Trust Earns Media Attention

Recently, the Ponemon Institute conducted an independent survey to measure public sentiment regarding the creation of a national healthcare database. A number of influential publications have taken note of the resulting study, American's Opinions about Healthcare Privacy.

Recently, the Ponemon Institute conducted an independent survey to measure public sentiment regarding the creation of a national healthcare database. In drafting American's Opinions about Healthcare Privacy we spoke with a representative sampling of 883 adult Americans and learned some interesting things, including:

73% of Americans do not trust the federal government to protect the privacy of their healthcare records
84% of Americans do not even know that the federal government has earmarked funds for the creation of a national healthcare database

American's Opinions about Healthcare Privacy has gotten the attention of a number of prominent media, including Forbes, the Barr Code column in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and HealthLeaders Media, among others.