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Is Google tracking you?
... (REUTERS) — A few basic settings can give you a bit more privacy online.
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Feds slammed for not protecting privacy
... could not guarantee patients' medical privacy is not only accurate, but provides a glimpse of how ... helpless health-care consumers are when their privacy is breached. The GAO report, released late last ... month, found of 25 federal agencies, compliance with Privacy Act requirements and those of the Office
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Group sues feds over medical privacy
... A group consisting of patients, doctors and privacy advocates has filed suit in federal court ... charging a new government rule actually "eliminates the right to privacy" of past and future ... privacy and "jeopardizes the privacy of past and future communications between patients
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Online health privacy a myth?
... by the California HealthCare Foundation, titled, "Privacy: Report on the Privacy Policies ... and disease-specific sites. Researchers first evaluated sites' privacy policies in the context of a set ... consumers to make money for their stockholders." "They post sham privacy policies that aren't
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Google rankles regulators
... (BLOOMBERG) Google Inc's plan to make privacy policies simpler unleashed a fresh wave of criticism ... set of privacy guidelines for more than 60 products. Google also said it will reduce the number of so
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Facebook agrees to FTC settlement on privacy
... ;rsquo; consent before making changes to privacy settings, and to subject itself to an independent ... audit on consumer privacy for the next 20 years. Read the whole story at the New York Times.
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Health technology bill could weaken privacy
... A measure currently under consideration in the House could weaken medical privacy by granting ... Services Secretary legal authority to "preempt state laws ensuring privacy rights" and establish ... cannot decide who can see their personal health information, they have no true privacy rights
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Critics: 'Medical privacy' rules not so private
... Consumer-health advocates say despite government assurances to the contrary, new medical privacy ... Medical Privacy Rule, which took effect Monday, enhances patient privacy, Blevins said, "some industry ... and consumer groups that support federalizing health care and privacy are misleading the public
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Global surveillance supermarket offered to dictators
... by Wikileaks, the pressure group Privacy International and several media organizations. Read the whole story at the New Scientist.
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Google privacy-policy claims challenged by watchdog
... Google's privacy policy changes have caught the attention of an independent watchdog of the federal