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Privacy Problem

HIPAA’s Broken Promise

September 14, 2009 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Large house built directly on sand, now collapsing

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 […]

Filed Under: health data, policy issues Tagged With: Anonymization, Computer Scientists, data, Fellow Patients, Fig Leaf, Free Flow, Glass Houses, Health Data, Health Information Technology, Health Professionals, Hipaa, Information Privacy, Medical Researchers, Medical Secrets, Ohm, Paul Ohm, Privacy Problem, Unicorns

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