Why do so few doctors share medical records with their patients?
New government-issued guidelines, released in January, spell out the details of patients’ rights to their medical records. This isn’t news: Healthcare providers have been required to provide patients with paper or electronic copies of the health information they had on file for twenty years now, since the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was passed in 1996. So why the new legislature? It turns out that while...
Skype Manager Crippled As MS Turns Screw On Business Users
Skype announced that their popular Manager product, which allowed small business users to manage a group of associated accounts from one sign in is to be crippled, with the most important features to be retired during March. Currently small businesses using Skype are able to benefit from powerful features such as allocating phone numbers, credit, and setting up redirects for staff during leave all from one central log in. Over the...
Google Under Fire For Scanning Student E-mails
Internet giant, Google, has come under fire in a lawsuit filed by students in the San Jose federal court, alleging that their data had been collected for use in advertising purposes, according to Security Week. SafeGov reported on the claims that Google was targeting student users with advertising, even when ads weren’t set to be shown in schools back in 2014. They point out the key difference between Microsoft and Google: both...
Twitter Set For Massive 10,000 Character Tweets
The 140 character Tweet limit could be coming to an end as soon as the end of Q1 2016 as Re/code reports that the social media giant is planning to up it by over 700% to 1,000 characters, allowing long form content on the platform for the first time. Facebook recently moved to host more content from publishers directly on their site and tests by Gary Vaynerchuk, the CEO of Vayner Media, where he posted long-form content directly onto...
‘Spy Banker’ Attacks Facebook, Google Cloud Users
A Trojan threat which has existed since 2009 has resurfaced recently attacking users of Facebook and Google Cloud services, using social engineering, to encourage them to install the Spy Banker script. According to Zscaler, who have been monitoring the Trojan in the wild, the attackers are offering users coupons and free downloads of popular software to entice them to run the offending script on their devices. They went on to list...
Spycup: Freaky Cup That Records Your Friends? Or A Revolution For Citizen Journalism?
If you’d asked me earlier today if I’d like to turn my phone into a hidden spy device, concealed James Bond style in a cup, I’d have thought you were mad. Who would want to do that? But that was before I came across Spycup. Perhaps in a stroke of marketing genius they are presenting the tool as a revolution in citizen journalism at the same time as having a name that suggests altogether different applications. One...
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