Where Health Data Ends and Personal Data Begins
Reflecting on the use of Personal Data in Health Insurance Risk Assessment Last week, ProPublica published an interesting article (link) about how health insurers are using personal data to supplant a patient's medical data in order to carry out a risk assessment of the individual and use this as a basis for determining, amongst other […]
MCDE 2017: Building a Consentful Economy – Southampton, United Kingdom
April 6-7, 2017 The third international workshop on Meaningful Consent in the Digital Economy. From the MCDE 2017 Workshop Page "Over the past 3 years, the MCDE project at the University of Southampton has been considering the issue of consent with regard to digital services, and in particular how consent can empower digital citizens to […]
Are you a Parent? Worried about Privacy?
We're currently carrying out a survey to better understand the current best practices and attitudes to sharing & privacy in a social context by parents. While many parents routinely post information about their children on social networking sites, changes in data protection, privacy, and consent laws have created new opportunities for individual empowerment over their personal […]