This issue strikes me as a potential emergency. All American health professionals need to be writing our professional associations to demand that they oppose what The American Hospital Association is trying to do here.
I will be writing ACA, and -- time permitting -- will publish more on this later.
The problem in a nutshell is that every time hospitals -- or any other medical source -- make use of 3rd party trackers like Google Analytics, they provide data that can identify a patient. It is a HIPAA violation. They will argue that -- depending upon what is provided -- it does not actually give away enough information to identify the patient, but that is a bogus argument. Google Analytics (and many other outside tech tools) collect databases of information so they can put together profiles over time.
So -- for example -- if a hospital gives Google Analytics a web browser cookie showing that the client logged into their site, the cookie MIGHT just identify the web browser without the client name. BUT -- when that same client goes and logs into their Google account later (for which they have previously given their name), Google can observe the same "anonymous" cookie in the web browser and deduce that this is the same person who logged into the hospital website. If it happens to be an abortion clinic, then Google knows roughly the services provided. If the hospital sends the cookie from psychotherapist John Smith LCPC's telehealth page, then Google knows that the patient sees psychotherapist John Smith.
If hospitals need the tools that Google and other tech companies are providing, they need to buy internal versions of such to run on their own systems. If hospitals need to do marketing, then they need to run the 3rd party trackers only on the most public parts of their websites. therapyappointment.com is a good example of being a good citizen about this -- they run about eight 3rd party trackers on their home page, but only 1 tracker once a therapist has logged in. And that one tracker is for Amazon Cloud Services -- arguably a tracker that is necessary to the operation of their website.
I could see narrow exceptions allowing for 3rd party trackers that might make sense (AHA is making heavy use of these fringe cases in the article). Most of the time its a big problem.
I'm disgusted that the AHA is taking this position. It means they have NO respect for the data privacy they supposedly support!
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The publishing sector has a problem. Scientists are overwhelmed, editors are overworked, special issue invitations are constant, research paper mills, article retractions, journal delistings… JUST WHAT IS GOING ON!?
Volkskrant en NRC waren wat lauw over de nieuwe roman van Tommy Wieringa. Ik begrijp dat niet. Het si een prachtig boek en het komt ongetwijfeld (terecht) vandaag hoog binnen in de CPNB Top 60. In Vlaanderen alleen lovende recensies en het publiek staat voor Nirwana in de rij.
@JeanMarcvanTol ah, dank! Ik las die recensies ook en was heel verbaasd. Niet dat ik het boek al gelezen heb, maar ik heb van Wieringa gewoon nog nooit een slecht boek gezien. Dank voor de heads up dus (en misschien even nog @ boeken @ a.gup.pe gaan volgen en taggen :)
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Probably because Rebel News is well known right-wing propaganda outlet run by a racist fuckface with a tenuous grip on reality, when they aren’t just outright lying.
Odd thought - is there a book review site that focuses on the simple yet not so simple question of which edition of a book is likely the best? Ie comparing physical print to ebook to audiobook and coming up with an opinion as to which edition is the best (and why) relative to the others.
Perhaps with nuance like some ebook editions might be recommended only if you use a color screen / tablet for graphics heavy works but not if you use a B&W ebook reader
This study became very famous and we got a lot of comments, especially anthropologists, economists, philosophers. They didn't like this at all. Because they had decided in their minds, I believe, that fairness is a very complex issue, and that animals cannot have it.
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