CHAPTER 4 CASE STUDY

Discussion Questions

1. What type of security breaches of medical record are commonly today?

     There are many types of security breaches, but the most common ones are viruses and worms    that are usually acquired by carelessness of data handling.

2. What measures are being taken by the government and private industry to safeguard EHR's?

     The government has the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which is an act to protect the confidentiality of the healthcare user and data.

3. How do you think the implementation of ARRA will affect the privacy of our healthcare and personal data?      What breaches do you foresee? How can they be forestalled?

    In my opinion the ARRA has some issues regarding the privacy of the user’s health care and data. The security of the user’s data should always be considered.

Discussion Questions

1. How does Google's business model use personal data?

    I guess the most common here is the Google advertisement.

2. What do you think are the major privacy concerns raised by Google's business model and applications?

     I think the major privacy concern is the personal information of individual personal that uses a Google accounts.

3. Do you think Google has taken adequate measures to protect its user's privacy? Explain your answer.

 

   Google: Trust, Choice, and Privacy

   By: Gus Meuli, Caitlin Finn

“Trust is hard to earn, easy to loose, and nearly impossible to win back.”

This statement seems to ring true in the constantly changing world of business.  In a time where technology is developing faster than ever before, it is very difficult to regulate information privacy. Consumers have chosen to trust many companies with their private information in exchange for services that are used on a daily basis.  Google is in the middle of the debate about information privacy with its internet based services that collect and store enormous amounts of data about its users.  Through a detailed privacy policy, a consumer’s ability to choose between internet services and a trustworthy reputation Google has convinced consumers to use their products despite collecting and storing enormous amounts of personal information.  To certain degree information gathering can be ethical and very useful; however, Google has stepped over the boundary of ethics because of the amount of information they are gathering through their various products and their loose privacy policy that allows for third party exposure.  This behavior is unethical because it does not “most dutifully respect the rights of all affected”