Protection of Private Healthcare Information
One critical aspect of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) involves the protection of personally identifiable health information, as a way of safeguarding an individual’s...
View ArticleWhat Health Information is Protected?
In the last post, we started the discussion of data governance and its relation to the protection of personally-identifiable data attributes. But what are the data attributes that are covered under the...
View ArticleComplicating the Protection of Personal Information
In the last entry, I posed a question that if an individual provides what should be protected personal information to a bank but does not become a “customer,” is the bank obliged to protect that...
View ArticleConsumer Auditability and Data Governance
In the last set of posts we have looked at protection of personal information, and in the last post, I essentially suggested the need for auditability of data policies as a way of assuring the public...
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