In my regular day I am constantly viewing various RSS feeds using Google's iGoolge page. So the irony of this is pretty exquisite.
One of the main feeds I troll on a regular basis is Slashdot, and just now I found a very interesting and relevant post regarding Google Health, which has been featured on this blog now for a few weeks. LINK to the original Slashdot article.
"Security researcher Robert 'RSnake' Hansen discusses numerous concerns with Google's new Google Health application, which aims to integrate user's medical records online. We discussed Google Health's opening to the public earlier this week. RSnake mentions that Google has found a loophole allowing them to provide this service without having to follow HIPAA regulations, which, combined with Google's track record of having numerous flaws leading to private information disclosure, draws serious concern.
The referring site is ha.ckers.org in which they bring attention to the fact that Google has left itself a legal out from the industry standard HIPAA protocol, which does not bode well for Google fanboys, like myself. I am hoping that this new scrutiny via the huge readership of the Slashdot will focus attention to this very important issue, if not stopping people from blindly putting up their medical information, at least causing Google to re-examine it's position.
"Security researcher Robert 'RSnake' Hansen discusses numerous concerns with Google's new Google Health application, which aims to integrate user's medical records online. We discussed Google Health's opening to the public earlier this week. RSnake mentions that Google has found a loophole allowing them to provide this service without having to follow HIPAA regulations, which, combined with Google's track record of having numerous flaws leading to private information disclosure, draws serious concern.
LINK to the post on ha.ckers
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