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A $30 million King County initiative that has checked students for health risks raises questions about privacy, ethics and a conflict of interest.
Ad-tracking by some hospitals may violate federal law protecting health data.
The leaked Supreme Court opinion indicating that the court will overturn Roe v. Wade raised concerns that data from period tracking apps could be used against people suspected of having an abortion. Apps like Clue, Flo, and Glow don’t say they’ll change policies.
A new study reveals models aren’t reporting enough, leaving users blind to potential model errors such as flawed training data and calibration drift.
An attack in Vermont was a natural experiment.
How ad tech companies - and the marketers and publishers that enable them - weaponize data against cancer victims.
Experts say fatal flaws in the methodology of many machine learning papers make it hard to have faith in published claims.
As vaccine distribution accelerates, we should pause to think through what problems are already apparent, and what changes we might make to mitigate those problems.
About a dozen health-care systems will co-own a private Seattle-based startup company that will anonymize data from millions of patients and make it available to researchers, health-care providers and pharmaceutical companies.
Labs and other companies make millions selling bundles of medical data—and it’s not as anonymized as you might think
Changing the current U.S. “reasonable expectation of privacy” doctrine and ending the restriction of HIPAA to only the healthcare industry are two specific steps local or federal governments can take to protect privacy in the age of ML
The therapy-by-text company made burner phones available for fake reviews and doesn’t adequately respect client privacy, former employees say.
If the authorities can’t satisfy the public’s desire to know more, others will fill the void with misinformation.
The algorithm only recommended around 18% of black patients for follow-up care, versus 82% of white patients, even when both groups were similarly sick.
To license medical technical standards costs hundreds of dollars. The Human Standards Project is sharing them all in a huge torrent to fight the coronavirus.