In what may be a country-wide precedent, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that you may now sue your HMO if it denies a treatment request your doctor feels necessary. More legal news: does Ashcroft's Justice Dept. have a legal agenda, or a political one? (Link via TalkLeft).
I'll bet there was a ton of soul-searching that went on before this decision was made: scientific journals will voluntarily excise sensitive data from the papers they publish. The goal is to keep technical information out of public (read: terrorists') hands, while still allowing reproduction of trials to corroborate results. That could be a really tricky task.
Ah, the old (as in, obsolete) data storage device. Sound familiar? Not obsolete, but not necessarily useful either: feel-good security measures of little actual usefulness. Privacy International is sponsoring an international competition to discover the world's most "pointless, intrusive, stupid and self-serving security measure." It's got a catchy title, too: Stupid Security Awards.
Posted by Linkmeister at February 18, 2003 02:10 PM