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CIO weekly wrap-up



Posted by: Rachel Lebeaux
CIO weekly wrap-up

Happy Monday! We had another busy week at SearchCIO.com. Here are our latest stories:

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Bruce Walter  |   Oct 13 2008   6:01PM GMT

One thing that was not addressed in your article is the issue of privacy.

There are already teams of hackers around the world dedicated to stealing credit card information; just imagine what the hacking community will do with medical records. Blackmail, extortion, sale of information to the Medical Information Bureau and credit bureaus, etc. People will lose their jobs, their health insurance, be denied life insurance, and never know why, and even if they know why, going to court will be a futile exercise. The penalties for hacking and spamming are so trivial that no one is really deterred, and how do you make the information private again once your medical record has been released?