{"id":304,"date":"2007-10-15T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=304"},"modified":"2007-10-15T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T15:19:08","slug":"microsoft-wants-to-own-your-private-health-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/microsoft-wants-to-own-your-private-health-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wants to own your private health records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While databases and sharing information can lower costs and improve service in a range of industries, the ownership of information can impinge upon one&#8217;s privacy and allow access to private information by people that you don&#8217;t know or would not want to have access to your data.\u00a0 The line between utility and invasion of privacy has been blurred by many private businesses &#8211; the best illustration of this is the pile of spam in your email inbox everyday.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve shared our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google-watch.org\/\">concerns about Google<\/a>&#8216;s harvesting and retention of information without user knowledge; while it may help them send relevant products and services your way it is also used for their benefit and sold to others.<\/p>\n<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/07_42\/b4054047.htm\">Microsoft wants your health records<\/a>.\u00a0 That is not something I would want.\u00a0 While it may be beneficial to have the data incorporated in to a database I would only want the data stored by a reliable, independent third party.\u00a0 If you feel concerned, stay in touch with your MD and insurance company lest they share your data without your awareness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While databases and sharing information can lower costs and improve service in a range of industries, the ownership of information can impinge upon one&#8217;s privacy and allow access to private information by people that you don&#8217;t know or would not want to have access to your data.\u00a0 The line between utility and invasion of privacy &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/microsoft-wants-to-own-your-private-health-records\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft wants to own your private health records<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-4U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}