Re: Virtual Nursing Initiative A thought occurred to me, although this may be giving too much credit. What if the…
Morning Headlines 4/5/24
Massachusetts Justices Mull Applying Wiretap Law to Web Tracking
A court reviews a class action lawsuit that argues that hospital use of web tracking technologies violates the state’s Wiretap Act.
Cerberus says its investment in Steward hospitals yielded an $800 million profit
The investment firm tells a Senate subcommittee that its only cost in creating the now-struggling, for-profit Steward Health Care that it sold at an $800 million profit was buying Caritas Christi for $246 million.
Former University of Iowa Hospital employee used fake identity for 35 years
A hospital network architect pleads guilty for living under another man’s identity since 1988, which caused that man to be wrongly confined to jail and then a mental hospital for 20 months.
Re: Mass wiretapping statute. Super interesting. I’m not qualified to wade into the legal merits, but I can certainly see how any TCP/TLS/HTTPS connection could be defined as a “conversation”. Either way, I’m glad that some government entity somewhere is taking consumer data privacy seriously because HR 7521 ain’t it (the hilariously dumb and unconstitutional TikTok ban). I am of the opinion that all web browsing should be private by default (i.e. no retention of user browsing data, no third party trackers, cookies should be purely in the service of application functionality), and that even the GDPR-required cookie disclosures should be more aggressive. It’s still way too easy for people to click through those in a way that allows invasive tracking. Next up: right to be forgotten, restrictions on the sale of data that require data brokers to maintain strict chain of custody on personal data such that your data gets deleted everywhere, notifications to all individuals when their data is being sold and for how much, etc.