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Establishing Trust And Interoperability In The Post-NwHIN Governance Era

Deven McGraw | iHealthBeat | September 27, 2012

At the September meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari announced that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT was dropping its plans to issue regulations setting voluntary "rules of the road" for participation in the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN). Read More »

Microsoft Promises To Stop Reading Your Emails

Brendan Sasso | Nextgov.com | March 31, 2014

Microsoft is in full damage-control mode after it sparked a public backlash by snooping on the emails of a blogger.  The company said Friday that it will no longer go through the emails of users who are suspected of stealing physical or intellectual property from Microsoft.

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The Data Divide

Sean Martin McDonald | FrontlineSMS | February 5, 2013

[T]he digitization of interactions means that every time we carry a smart phone, send a text message, or buy something online, we’re creating value for someone. A lot of it, as it turns out. These days, information isn’t just power, it’s big money.

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Why Privacy Policies Are So Inscrutable

Marcus Moretti and Michael Naughton | The Atlantic | September 5, 2014

The agreements of the 50 most popular websites in America are composed of 145,641 words. This is why...

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