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What is Your Digital Fingerprint?

4 February 2010
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As a result of Data Privacy Day last week, I have spent the past few days poking around online to see what data about myself I could discover that I didn’t know existed. Before I try to tame others’ data, perhaps I should try taming my own?
I searched under various versions of my name. Now, [...]

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‘What part of “Give us our damn data” do you not understand?’

14 January 2010
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CNN posted an article a few days ago that gives examples of patients and former patients who have had problems accessing (getting copies of) their patient data. I did not find any of the information about the difficulties in accessing personal data to be surprising.
I thought the author’s advice on how to gain access [...]

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