HITECH Act – Privacy and Security What is the HITECH Act? Protecting the privacy of patient information is one of the top priorities of all healthcare providers and is specifically required by various state and federal laws. On February 17‚ 2009 the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA‚ sometimes referred to as “the stimulus”) included provisions making significant improvement in the privacy and security standards for health information was signed into law by the federal
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------------------------------------------------- The Data Protection Act (UK – 1998‚ Malta – 2001): The DPA concerns the “collection‚ recording‚ organization‚ storage‚ adaptation‚ alteration‚ retrieval‚ gathering‚ use‚ disclosure‚ blocking‚ erasure or destruction of personal data”. The purpose of the Data Protection Act: a. The purpose of the DPA is to protect living individuals against the misuse of their personal data. Examples of such misuse could include exposing of personal data
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Fleishmann‚ I am writing regarding the upcoming Trafficking Protection Reauthorization Act (S. 1301/ HR 2830). I believe it is imperative that this be supported. The statistics worldwide of human trafficking are astronomical. There are 800‚000 people trafficked across borders annually. Women and children are the forerunners in abductions and sales‚ due to being used primarily for the sex trade. Around 80% of slaves are women and children. The other percentage are forced military recruits and hard
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Data Protection Act- 8 principles Founded in 1998 Personal data must be: 1. Processed fairly and lawfully. 2. Processed only for one or more specified and lawful purpose. 3. Adequate‚ relevant and not excessive for those purposes. 4. Accurate and kept up to date - data subjects have the right to have inaccurate personal data corrected or destroyed if the personal information is inaccurate to any matter of fact. 5. Kept for no longer than is necessary for the purposes it is being processed.
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http://www.fe-bd.com/more.php?news_id=138648&date=2011-06-10 VOL 18 NO -213 REGD NO DA 1589 | Dhaka‚ Friday June 10 2011 Privacy Act versus Right to Information Act M S Siddiqui Democracy is a pre-condition for good governance and effective democratic institutions are essential for democratising the society‚ ensure human rights and free flow of information. Democracy cannot flourish in the absence of good governance. The economic development is also linked to democracy. Democracy
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The privacy Act of 1974 was developed with sole purpose of establishing a code of fair information regarding the maintenance‚ use‚ collection and delivery of information regarding persons in the records system by the Federal agencies. According to this act‚ agencies should give a public notice regarding their records system by publishing the same in the Federal register. Therefore‚ this act was created to address the concerns of how the computerized database could infringe on the privacy rights of
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1. The enabling statute for the Immigration and Refugee Board is the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. 2. The Ontario Statutory Powers Procedure Act (SPPA) does not apply to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. 3. The Immigration and Refugee Board is subject to a right to statutory appeal as per section 62 and section 63(1)…..63(5) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. 4. The procedural steps or facts about the determination of inadmissibility as per the Immigration
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1168 Abstract—In this paper‚ we address the problem of privacy protection in video surveillance. We introduce two efficient approaches to conceal regions of interest (ROIs) based on transform-domain or codestream-domain scrambling. In the first technique‚ the sign of selected transform coefficients is pseudorandomly flipped during encoding. In the second method‚ some bits of the codestream are pseudorandomly inverted. We address more specifically the cases of MPEG-4 as it is today the prevailing standard
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30‚000/- as compensation and the complainant also entitled to get Rs. 5000/- for irresponsible act of the respondent. 14. That this Hon’ble Forum under the Consumer Protection Act has jurisdiction to try and entertain the present complaint. PRAYER In view of the above submissions‚ it is most respectfully prayed that the Hon’ble Forum may graciously be pleased to direct the respondent:
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Online Free Services Impeach Privacy Gap The United States is a culture of sharing. People share their personal lives on almost every aspect with social media such as Facebook and Twitter. The idea of free online services has attracted people’s natural instinct to indulge themselves into these free services. What they do not know is what these “free-services” ask in return. Facebook‚ Twitter‚ and Snapchat have revolutionized how people connect with one another and the way people retrieve resources
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