Abstract The digital revolution transforms people’s view about values and priorities. Automated facial recognition (AFR) comes with many concerns as well benefits. technology raises significant legal ethical challenges, which risk perpetuating systemic injustice unless countervailing measures are put in place. way images obtained used, potentially without consent or opportunities to opt out, ca...

conclusions the results showed that the level of respect for informational privacy was relatively acceptable. however, the level of respect for physical privacy was poor. therefore, it is essential to provide appropriate training on the issue of children’s privacy, especially physical privacy (e.g., using separate rooms and ensuring that medical staff knock before entering a room), and to ensur...

If success of outsourcing and popularity of Web 2.0 are anything to go by, collaborations are highly desired both in business and social communities. From large scale organizations to teen-agers, every one seems to be interested in sharing her resources (be it computing power or data) with her peers provided it is beneficial to her personal goals. This collaboration process is supposed to be in...

Executive Summary T his paper summarizes the results of a review of nearly 500 judicial opinions decided as of fall 2006, involving access to protected health information (PHI) and privacy of medical information under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). This review was undertaken to determine whether HIPAA, which permits application of state privacy ...

Patient photographs published in medical journals have been found on Google Images two studies, raising concerns about informed consent and patient privacy. It is unlikely that includes consideration of these circumstances, as there are no uniform guidelines for obtaining the publishing clinical across online journals. Health data privacy legislation EU, US, Canada only concerned with identifia...

as the Clinton Administration's Chief Counselor for Privacy, in the Office of Management and Budget. In that position he worked extensively on encryption policy and government computer security issues, including the Federal Intrusion Detection Network (FIDNet), Carnivore, and critical infrastructure issues. In 2000 he chaired a 15-agency White House Working Group on how to update wiretap and el...

The benefits of public, child welfare and education collaborations are numerous. However, different privacy laws that dictate professional practice within each respective system may cause tensions to surface across service agencies in the interpretation and implementation of these policies. A new perspective on the interpretation of these confidentiality policies is offered to guide the child w...