By now the general public has become aware that mobile phone applications, bank security systems and credit card databases are not immune to vulnerabilities; information thefts happen. Some computer scientists now say it's ...
An in-depth analysis of more than 20,000 health related mobile applications (mHealth apps) published by The BMJ today finds "serious problems with privacy and inconsistent privacy practices."
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A patient is lying on the operating table as the surgical team reaches an impasse. They can't find the intestinal rupture. A surgeon asks aloud, "Check whether we missed a view of any intestinal section in the visual feed ...
Apr 12, 2023
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Your bed could be watching you.
Jun 4, 2019
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DNA testing is all about unlocking secrets. But sometimes surrendering your saliva may also mean surrendering a bit of privacy—yours or someone else's.
Jul 4, 2019
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Designed to help fight the spread of the novel coronavirus by automatically tracing the contacts of infected people, Covid-19 tracking applications have encountered a series of challenges since their launch, from privacy ...
Sep 9, 2020
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While caring for COVID-19 patients, health care professionals across the country have amassed a treasure trove of information about SARS-CoV-2, its evolving variants such as Delta and Omicron, and their effects on the human ...
Apr 28, 2022
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Researchers at Penn Medicine and Intel Corporation led the largest-to-date global machine learning effort to securely aggregate knowledge from brain scans of 6,314 glioblastoma (GBM) patients at 71 sites around the globe ...
Dec 5, 2022
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Scientists may better understand and test for the genetic variations that cause cancer and other heritable diseases through the application of a novel strategy for securely sharing and analyzing genomic data developed at ...
Mar 9, 2022
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Routinely-collected health care data has the potential to improve the lives and well-being of patients across the world, through better understanding of disease, and research on existing and new treatments. Presented today ...
Aug 30, 2022
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