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Who's Watching Me?
9/26/2006
[In terms of related technology application areas, the example] that I’ve been most personally acquainted with, through some conversations with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) at the time the HIPPA regulation was promulgated, is telemedicine. There are a number of universities who are pioneering the use of telemedicine, especially through distribution of medical imagery over very high bandwidth connections like Internet2. For a long time this was the exclusive province of the academic community, and it created a set of electronic health record considerations that hadn’t been dealt with by anybody else in the [medical] community. So certainly, academic medical centers are really pioneering both the technology and the social context that’s going to be embedded there.
And one of the big problems in the online world is, if for every piece of data there was someone who was recognizably responsible for it, it would be so much easier to enforce privacy regulations. But the fact is, there’s a large amount of data out there that is in a certain sense, orphaned: [not necessarily abandoned], but nobody has any statutory responsibility for it. The fact that it’s out there and it d'esn’t have to be accurate and nobody’s accountable, gives you a kind of wild-west aspect to the landscape that contributes to the difficulty of solving the privacy problem.
Bob Blakley is the principal analyst for identity and privacy strategies at the Burton Group.
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