By  Diana Manos, Senior Editor

09/19/08

[Fall/Winter 2000; Vol. 27, No. 2; Pg 11-13]

ACLU attacks “unfettered law enforcement access to medical records...,” says that “DHHS Rule permits computerized medical records to be used as a vast centralized police database.”

Washington - How would you feel about your personal health information flowing freely over the Internet between public health officials, healthcare providers, insurance and data clearinghouse companies, and others – without your permission?

If this doesn't sound like a good idea, it's time to become informed about federal health privacy law.

5/27/2008

Dear AAPS Action Team,

Patient Privacy Rights' Founder & Chair, Dr.

Liberty Coalition would like to thank Dr. Peel for being our first guest blogger in 2008.

State Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, said she is “livid’’ that Napolitano
promised to have Arizona comply with the Real ID Act and promised to
fight the plan despite its voluntary nature.

“The federal government’s going to get all this information,’’ Johnson said.

There are many causes for concern in HR 1955. The legislation specifically singles out the Internet for "facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process" in the United States. Such language may well be the first step toward US government regulation of what we are allowed to access on the Internet.