Many widely used reproductive health apps fail to protect highly sensitive data, study finds
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HHS strengthens privacy of US reproductive health care data
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Some US pharmacies share medical data with police without a warrant, inquiry finds
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Private UK health data donated for medical research shared with insurance companies
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Is there a way to do a DNA test anonymously?
Not sure if this is the right spot, but the topic says it. I'd like to get my DNA checked out, but I don't want it connected to my name and all that. Is this actually possible? Am I overreacting?...
Not sure if this is the right spot, but the topic says it. I'd like to get my DNA checked out, but I don't want it connected to my name and all that. Is this actually possible? Am I overreacting?
I'm not even sure what I look to gain from the testing, but I figured I'd look into it. If I can do it safely and privately, I'm game. If not, no loss.
Any thoughts?
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Joe Biden officials to keep private the names of US hospitals where patients contracted Covid
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How we track COVID-19 (and other weird stuff) in sewage
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Covid testing company "selling customers' DNA"
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Lessons from a year of Covid
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Norway's data inspectorate has banned the use of public health app Smittestopp to control the spread of COVID-19 over data protection concerns
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Q Team is content that COVIDSafe is an innocuous application that should be considered safe to download for most people
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A spectacularly bad Washington Post story on Apple and Google’s exposure notification project
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Contact tracing and privacy protection
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Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps
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Apple and Google’s COVID-19 exposure notification API: Questions and answers
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Will you install the contact-tracing app on your phone?
Looks like governments around the world are going to start releasing tracing apps into the wild very soon. Now it's everybody's personal decision to install it or not. So my question to you,...
Looks like governments around the world are going to start releasing tracing apps into the wild very soon. Now it's everybody's personal decision to install it or not.
So my question to you, tilderinos: Are you going to install it? Why or why not? What would change your mind?
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Showdown looms between Silicon Valley, US states over contact tracing apps
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Community privacy concerns have forced the Australian Government to insist a coronavirus tracing app will neither track people's locations nor be available for law enforcement agencies to access
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Australian government plans to bring in mobile phone app to track people with coronavirus
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Shelter in place with Shane Smith & Edward Snowden
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The downside of diagnosis by smartphone
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Billions of medical images available online
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Data bleeding everywhere: A story of period trackers
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One in ten people with a Medicare card have chosen to opt out of the new My Health Record digital health system, more than 2.5 million Australians in total
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You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true – Propublica/NPR investigation into billing and privacy concerns for sleep apnea patients
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You snooze, you lose: Insurers make the old adage literally true
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A startup company says it will give people free genome reports if they’re willing to answer detailed questions about their health, drinking habits, and more
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DeepMind’s move to transfer health unit to Google stirs data fears
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Period-tracking apps are not for women
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My Health Record: Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt bows to pressure and extends opt-out deadline as website hits issues
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Seventeen million Australians to be automatically enrolled in My Health record
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Last chance to opt out of #MyHealthRecord, Australians! (Deadline November 15, 2018)
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The federal government's My Health Record system is capable of storing genomic information, which could turbocharge medical research but has intensified privacy and security fears
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My Health concessions 'woefully inadequate', says former Australian Medical Association president
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The Federal Government will change the law to reassure Australians their privacy will be protected in the My Health Record system
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Australians are 'rightly' concerned about trusting My Health Record, says Privacy Commissioner
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Millions of Australians to opt out of My Health Record as backlash builds
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My Health Record: Confusion as some Australians shocked they already have one
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Health insurers are vacuuming up details about you — and it could raise your rates
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Breach 'inevitable' in digital health records
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