Privacy Research Group – NYU

By: Hannah Baker   Link: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/18/tumblr-is-not-what-you-think/   Discussion: This post by Adam Rifkin on techcrunch.com discusses Tumblr, one of the newer social networking/blogging websites. According to a quoted survey, Tumblr is now the most-used social networking site among both the 13-18 and the 19-25 age groups. While the survey’s informality and small sample size make [...]

By: Katrina Henderson President Obama’s 2009 stimulus plan set forth billions of dollars worth of incentives for medical health providers in order to urge them to begin using electronic medical records (EMR). The plan hoped to encourage health care providers to streamline medical care, due to the fact that EMR systems are both more efficient [...]

By: Carey Shenkman In Florida it is now harder for surviving spouses to obtain health records of diseased loved ones, a victory for more uniform federal healthcare privacy. Indeed, this case is particularly significant given the historical context of HIPAA, which broke significant ground when it was passed. At the same time, the law, since passing, [...]

By: Michael Lucien Information privacy in the healthcare context is a very tricky issue.  On one hand, individuals stand to benefit greatly from a more efficient system of storing and transmitting medical information.  On the other hand, health information is among the information that we are the most concerned about falling into the wrong hands.  As [...]

By Siranya Rhuvattana After the mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut, President Barack Obama has attempted to curb the gun violence by, among other ways, improving the Federal government’s background check system for the sale or transfer of firearms by licensed dealers, called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The Department of Health and [...]