Not long ago I heard a gentleman speaking with radio show host Clark Howard about a phone he purchased online. He said it had all sorts of personal information belonging to the previous owner including her healthcare records. Ouch.
If I understood the caller correctly it sounded like this personal information was sent to the previous owner by her doctor. A doctor who I'm sure is HIPAA compliant...after all, as most healthcare practitioners know, all you need for HIPAA compliance is a sticker-based sign-in sheet and notice of privacy practices handout. OK, maybe a firewall and anti-virus software if you want to go out on a limb and buy into the compliance comes in a box theory. But I digress...
Be careful out there folks. Compliance requirements or not, our smartphones are going to make us look dumber and dumber moving forward if we're not careful.
Tuesday 12 July 2011
How smartphones can make us look dumb
Posted on 15:28 by Unknown
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