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2015.
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"Governments, businesses, and individuals all rely extensively on online communication and information, but repeated news reports of online breaches do not inspire confidence in the online world. This is true in many areas, including health care. Online Privacy and Health Care covers who has access to private health care information, trends in electronic health care records, health care privacy breaches and their effects, and health care privacy enforcement"--From...
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2018.
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Most people are baffled by how computers work and assume that they will never understand them. What they don't realize-and what Daniel Hillis's short book brilliantly demonstrates-is that computers' seemingly complex operations can be broken down into a few simple parts that perform the same simple procedures over and over again. Computer wizard Hillis offers an easy-to-follow explanation of how data is processed that makes the operations of a computer...
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2019.
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"The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years--because a new computer system interprets any mistake as "failure to cooperate." In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritize them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to...
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