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Ian Kerr and UK Data Snooping

Ian Kerr was getting paid to snoop on his fellow citizens in the UK.  Such a violation of personal privacy is not allowed for profit.

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Google Health in Cleveland

Google wants to manage your health information starting in Cleveland:

The
Cleveland Clinic has more than 100,000 patients and many of those are
retirees who spend some of the year elsewhere such as Arizona and
Florida. And when they go, their medical records don’t follow says Dr.
C. Martin Harris, the clinic’s chief information officer.

The
Google personal health record Harris says is a solution to that
problem, among others. A person can approve the transfer of information
on medical conditions, allergies, medications and laboratory results
from the clinic’s computers to a Google personal health record.

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As it Goes

It’s been a wild couple of days with the database update — BIG THANKS to Chris Lea, Media Temple Director of Technology, for personally upgrading our server and making sure everything here sings the best and fastest possible tune.

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