Privacy Problem

HIPAA’s Broken Promise

September 14, 2009 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

If you hate HIPAA, it’s your lucky day. Paul Ohm is handing you ammunition in his article, “Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization.” His argument: our current information privacy structure is a house built on sand. “Computer scientists…have demonstrated they can often ‘reidentify’ or ‘deanonymize’ individuals hidden in anonymized data […]

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HIPAA’s Broken Promise

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