Privacy

Doctors told not to connect with patients on Facebook

Jared Yee | 21 July 2011

Doctors should not accept Facebook requests from current and former patients and should consider using “conservative privacy settings” wherever possible, the British Medical Association has said.

DNA profiles to be deleted from UK police records

Michael Cook | 19 February 2011

Hundreds of thousands of DNA profiles kept by police in the UK are to be deleted after a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights. At the moment there are almost 1.1 million DNA profiles on the database of people who were arrested but not convicted.

Unconscious patients examined without consent

Jared Yee | 04 February 2011

Students did what they were told despite misgivings

WikiLeaks shows US chasing foreign leaders’ DNA

Jared Yee | 10 December 2010

WikiLeaks publishes tens of thousands of diplomatic cables

California ruling upholds police use of DNA from discarded cigarette

Jared Yee | 03 December 2010

Privacy and public safety collide again

Doctors reveal patient information on Facebook

Jared Yee | 02 October 2010

Warnings over flippancy online

Police agencies admit to saving images from body scans

Jared Yee | 14 August 2010

Checkpoint security machines provoke privacy concerns

US House endorses genetic mug shots

Michael Cook | 29 May 2010

UK and US diverge on privacy

Psychiatrists prepare for the age of “patient-targeted googling”

Michael Cook | 27 March 2010

New ethical dilemmas

US patients need medical records privacy

Michael Cook | 27 March 2010

There should be a right to informed consent

Where did the bodies come from?

Michael Cook | 25 February 2010

The Lancet asks questions

Ontario health privacy compromised by memory stick loss

Michael Cook | 22 January 2010

Privacy commissioner orders shake-up

Argentina will force children of “desaparecidos” to take DNA test

Michael Cook | 12 December 2009

Under pressure from Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo