Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/21/14

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

There is an effort across America and here in Maine to digitize medical records into large databases to reduce health care costs and better share patient data among health care providers. But bigger databases are bigger targets for hackers as the theft of 4.5 million records from Community Health Systems demonstrates. Should patients have any say in how or where their personal medical records are stored?

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 8/14/14

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

It’s fun to pull a program from the Electronic cottage archives and give it another listen. That’s what we’ll do today on the subject of Power Laws in this piece that is almost 10 years old but still worth a listen – and, we hope, a contribution to WERU’s Funathon, either online at weru.org, or by phone at 800 643-6273.

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Notes from the Electronic Cottage 7/3/14

Producer/Host: Jim Campbell

Law is one place where the physical world and the digital world exist in a very rickety tension these days. If it was ever true that “on the Internet, no one knows if you are a dog,” it isn’t true any more. For better or worse, government can use laws written long before the Internet existed to find out pretty near anything about anybody in cyberspace, as these recent court cases illustrate,

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