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Web 2.0 Reality: Privacy, Anyone?

Marc Dautlich and Nick Eziefula of Times Online discuss the myriad ways that Web 2.0 is changing our concept of privacy and copyright. From “podcast” to “poke”, “wiki” to “weblog”, the internet generation has a language all of its own. But since web guru Tim O’Reilly popularised the phrase “Web 2.0″ in 2004, even those [...]

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HealthVault and Patient Privacy – The Issue Is Deeper than Data Security

Who will use Microsoft’s new online health information repository, HealthVault? It is not an idle question. Historically, there has not been an enormous demand for this kind of electronic record keeping from patients. As a recent PCWorld article points out: Microsoft’s new e-health platform will probably be the largest not affiliated with an insurance provider [...]

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