Electronic Communications Privacy Act

difficult role of protecting the lives of Americans and protecting their privacy. This balance fluctuates with time and events: when a catastrophic event like 9/11 happens versus ten years have passed without an “incident”. Americans are whirl winded and are not given enough information to be informed and, for the most part, decided to give up a lot of their rights to “insure this does not happen again” but when does the rights of privacy return? Our Civil rights are given to us by the Bill of…

about trends in computing, communications, and culture, including the book, Virtual Community, a term he also coined. In Smart Mobs, Rheingold explores the groups of friends, colleagues, and/or strangers, who come together in what he calls smart mobs. These are "people who are able to act in concert even if they don’t know each other. The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never thought possible because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities”…

neutrality a reality while only a dismal 18% were against it (Graham). Net Neutrality, or the Open Internet Order, is the basis for keeping the internet an open, and free network for all people to use, previously enforced by Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. This large gap in opinions would lead one to think that today net neutrality would still be around, yet in December of 2017, it was repealed. This repeal came after months of major companies lobbying for and against it, yet even…

network becomes a primary network for the doctors and nurses, Radio frequency identification (RFID) will be an integral part of the operation. This network shall be able to transport the electronic health records securely (EHR’s) to and from mobile work stations. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act passed by the congress in 1996 also known as HIPPA. This gives patient rights over their health information. Every healthcare organization must follow guidelines laid by HIPPA. The…

images, audio, and video on Facebook and other social networking sites + the sexting phenomenon)” (Ehrich, 2015, Slide 8). An old issue that has taken a different form is the increasing problem of cyber bullying in schools, i.e., the use of electronic communication devices to bully others. “Cyber bullying is different from traditional forms of bullying, and there are now few areas of a young persons life that cyber bullying cannot penetrate. This makes this type of bullying potentially more…

cyber bullying takes place “when the Internet, cell phones or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass another person.” Cyber bullying involves acts that seek to control, manipulate, falsely dishonor, or humiliate a person or entity using the computer as a mode of communication. The actions are deliberate and done repeatedly on purpose with the sole intention of causing harm. Cyber bullying is being increasingly used in schools. In a recent incident, a…

Ideas of safety as a basic human right were very important, but nobody wanted to risk their own privacy or their civil liberties in order to achieve that goal. According to Matt Novak, in the 1960s, people believed that the government would soon be “keeping tabs on [everyone] with video cameras on every street corner” (Novak). Ultimately, it has been…

HCM - 500 HEALTHCARE LAW AND IT - BY SRIKANTH REDDY KARRA INTRODUCTION The right to healthcare is an internationally recognized human right. All the world nations and various international governing bodies like WHO should put their maximum efforts in providing minimum basic healthcare requirements to people all over the world. Before going further, we should know few key terms like health and health care law. According to WHO (world health organization),…

And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs” (President Barrack Obama, Inaugural Address, 2009). Soon after the inaugural speech, President Barrack Obama passed the Patient Care and Affordable Care Act of 2009…

certification program was to provide a form of consumer protection to prospective purchasers of EHRs, ensuring that EHRs were capable of meeting meaningful-use requirements. The HITECH Act tasked the ONC and the HITPC with studying technical and policy approaches to improving the security and privacy of electronic health information. Developing such solutions will probably require a multifaceted strategy that involves technical, educational, legal, and policy interventions by many public and…