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On 1-year anniversary, organized NSTIC looking for fast track | ZDNet

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/identity/on-1-year-anniversary-organized-nstic-looking-for-fast-track/424 With $16.5 million in funding and $10 million earmarked for pilot programs, the government-led plan to facilitate the build out of an identity layer for the Internet has a year of organization under its belt, an implementation challenge for its future and a few critics chirping in its ear. Last April, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) was an Obama Administration mandate, a press conference and one ambitious guy sitting in a Commerce Building office above the nation’s oldest aquarium.

Groups Offer Input, Criticism on Health Data Disclosure Proposal - iHealthBeat

Many health care groups are responding to an HHS proposed rule that aims to expand patients' rights to obtain a list of those who have viewed their electronic health data, HealthLeaders Media reports (Nicastro, HealthLeaders Media , 8/3). http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2011/8/3/groups-offer-input-criticism-on-health-data-disclosure-proposal.aspx
Computer tapes containing health care information on 4.9 million TRICARE beneficiaries stolen from the car of a Science Applications International Corp. employee in San Antonio, Texas, earlier this month were not encrypted in compliance with federal standards, SAIC said. http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110930_6802.php

Stolen TRICARE health records did not meet federal encryption standards - Nextgov

SAIC: Medical records for 4.9 million TRICARE beneficiaries were stolen - Nextgov

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20110929_8856.php Science Applications International Corp. said backup computer tapes containing sensitive health information of 4.9 million Military Health Care System TRICARE beneficiaries treated in the San Antonio, Texas, area since 1992 were stolen from an employee's car Sept. 14.
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This a a good lecture and answers a lot of questions and covers items even from the TSA and their privacy issues. Emails at work, all saved due to laws and being recorded and saved. http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2011/04/you-are-productprivacy-anonymity-and.html

You Are the Product–Privacy Anonymity and Net Neutrality On the Internet - Excellent Stanford University Lecture (Video)