Magdalena Skipper @Magda_Skipper5m
Out last Thursday, a News Feature – Privacy protections: The genome hacker @NatureNews @erlichya
http://www.nature.com/news/privacy-protections-the-genome-hacker-1.12940
Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
Privacy protections: The genome hacker : Nature News & Comment
May 13, 2013Henrietta Lacks’s genome sequence has been publicly available for years « Genomes Unzipped
April 21, 2013Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. The DEA Put Him in Prison | Raises Qs of accountability for tech we make
April 15, 2013Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison | Threat Level | Wired.comhttp://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/alfred-anaya
Identifiability Think Tank Report Published in Genetics in Medicine
April 12, 2013an article describing the Think Tank was just published online in Genetics in Medicine:
http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/gim.2013.40
Lost in the cloud: How safe are your online possessions? – tech – 02 April 2013 – New Scientist
April 9, 2013interesting discussion of some of the legalities of cloud usage
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729101.900?
Study Shows How Easy It Is to Determine Someone’s Identity With Cellphone Data
April 8, 2013An interesting juxtaposition with privacy implications from the March 27, 2013 edition of ACM TechNews.
Phys.Org (03/25/13) Lisa Zyga
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-easy-identity-cell.html
Personal Monitor Systems May Change Healthcare
UAHuntsville News (03/25/13) Jim Steele
The Dawn of Genome Trolling
March 31, 2013related to the Hela genome controversy
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512966/the-dawn-of-genome-trolling/#comments
Putting genome data into the public domain advances science, but nearly all of it can be linked to someone.
Last week European scientists were shamed into cutting off public access to a genome sequence. As far as I know, it’s the first instance of a genome pulled from the public record….
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