Sender: •••@••.••• (Lutz Donnerhacke) * Cyber Rights wrote: > CDT POLICY POST Volume 2, Number 14 April 12, 1996 > > o The revised S.1360 removes "health information services" from being > treated as trustees, and now only allows them to receive personal health > information with an individual's consent. Now, trustees, such as doctors, > hospitals, and insurance companies, must anonymize personal health > information prior to disclosing it to health information services, such as > EDS or Equifax. A health information service may only strip the identifiers > if they are under the control of a trustee as an employee or contractor. Does EDS mean Electronic Data System (or similar) known as the world largest company dealing with private informations? http://www.eds.com/ offers such an amount of companies EDS is involved with, that I can't seriosly claim that EDS keep information private... -- | •••@••.••• | (+49/3641)331496 ring, hangup, ring again | ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~ Posted by Andrew Oram - •••@••.••• - Moderator: CYBER-RIGHTS (CPSR) Cyber-Rights: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/ ftp://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/nii/cyber-rights/Library/ CyberJournal: (WWW or FTP) --> ftp://ftp.iol.ie/users/rkmoore Materials may be reposted in their _entirety_ for non-commercial use. ~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~-~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=~
