Matters of Privacy and Confidentiality

Saying privacy, meaning confidentiality.

Privacy Matters

According to a new Basex study, office workers spend a quarter of their day consumed by interruptions and distractions—wasting time and money (Wallis, Steptoe, & Cole, 2006). This study determined that this constant splintering and diverting of worker attention consumed up to 2.1 hours of worker productivity per day. The lost hours of productivity included not only interruptions and distraction...

Privacy, confidentiality and automated health information Privacy, confidentiality and automated health information systems

Professor Vuori's paper, first presented at the fourth Medico-legal Conference in Prague in the spring of this year, deals with the problem of the maintenance of confidentiality in computerized health records. Although more and more information is required, the hardware of the computer systems is so sophisticated that it would be very expensive indeed to 'break in' and stealfrom a modern data b...

Privacy and confidentiality of health information.

In this age of modern era, the use of internet must be maximized. Yeah, internet will help us very much not only for important thing but also for daily activities. Many people now, from any level can use internet. The sources of internet connection can also be enjoyed in many places. As one of the benefits is to get the on-line privacy and confidentiality of health information book, as the worl...

Privacy Homomorphisms for Statistical Confidentiality

When publishing contingency tables which contain official statistics, a need to preserve statistical confidentiality arises. Statistical disclosure of individual units must be prevented. There is a wide choice of techniques to achieve this anonymization: cell suppression, cell perturbation, etc. In this paper, we tackle the problem of using anonymized data to compute exact statistics; our appro...