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Lachlan Hatfield

UK patients' data uploaded to Google servers, - 0 views

www.engadget.com/...t-data-uploaded-google-servers

1.3_privacy_anonymity Ethical Social

shared by Lachlan Hatfield on 04 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • share patient data with researchers and private companies
  • entire patient database for the NHS has been uploaded to Google servers.
  • sensitive patient data has been uploaded -- to Google servers
  • Lachlan Hatfield on 04 Mar 14
     
    This is a serious social and ethical issue. People have no idea who is going to be able to see their private medical information. Although the British need to trust both the UK government and Google to do the right thing with their data.
  • samaraad on 07 Mar 14
     
    absolutely there is no privacy anymore. What would be the impact of sharing such critical information on patient. Who can see this database? who can edit it?
samaraad

BBC News - Hackers take control of 300,000 home routers - 2 views

www.bbc.com/...technology-26417441

1.2_security 1.3_privacy_anonymity

shared by samaraad on 04 Mar 14 - No Cached
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      samaraad on 04 Mar 14
       
      Lots of issues here can you choose any?
  • more than 300,000 routers in homes and small businesses that have been taken over through loopholes in their core software.
  • These first victims had been in Eastern Europe, but now most of the machines were in Vietnam with the rest scattered around Europe as well as a couple of other countries, said Team Cymru.
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  • t's a definite evolution in technology - going after the internet gateway, not the end machine," Mr Santorelli told the BBC in an email. "We see these leaps in concepts every few years in cybercrime." Team Cymru had contacted law enforcement about the attack and informed ISPs with a lot of compromised customers, he said.
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