“Most people want some kind of a hard token for their identity, but I don’t know how long that will last,” said Pam Dixon, executive director of the World Privacy Forum. “I would imagine that at some point, maybe in a generation, maybe less, that people will accept a fully digital system.”
In most states, people s data will be stored on their phone and with the DMV. People will only be able to access a mobile ID app with a passcode or using a smartphone’s fingerprint or facial recognition scan.
Industry leaders say safeguards will prevent anyone’s information from being stolen, but some critics argue that having so much personal data on a phone is too risky.
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“They own health care companies. They own insurance companies. They own retail companies,” explains Michael Roberts, Wharton finance professor. “So they can identify spending behavior, health care expenses, actual health outcomes for individuals.”
Blackstone sees big dollar signs in genetic data, having paid $4.7 billion for Ancestry. The same month Blackstone acquired Ancestry.com, l revealed a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing showing Blackstone would begin to “package and sell data” from the companies it acquires as a fresh revenue stream.
A Blackstone spokesperson pledges Ancestry’s data won’t be accessible to Blackstone, its stakeholders, or other companies owned by them.
Honoring Women Filmmakers Worldwide, Lady Filmmakers Film Festival Launches New Streaming Service Beginning on May 1
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ES NEW STREAMING SERVICE BEGINNING ON MAY 1 - New Streaming Channel will be available for $4.99 a month on Film Festival Flix
“We are so excited to bring content from the past 13 years for audiences to enjoy again or newly discover plus recent curated films and series by offering it on our new streaming channel,” said festival founders Patricia DiSalvo Viayra and Mike Viayra. HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (PRWEB) April 21, 2021 Continuing on their mission of championing and advancing the work of women filmmakers, The Lady Filmmakers Film Festival announced today a brand-new streaming channel set to launch worldwide beginning on Saturday, May 1st. Now in its 13th year, the well-respected film festival has always led the way in celebrating and honoring women filmmakers and the men who collabor
L.A. and Oregon disclose workplace outbreaks. Most Bay Area health officers won t. Why?
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A Safeway distribution center in Tracy experienced an outbreak in April. California does not require public disclosure of such incidents.Daymond Gascon / The Chronicle 2020
Is it safe to go to the grocery store? Why did that restaurant close its doors for a day?
A year after officials identified the first case of the coronavirus in the Bay Area, local health departments mostly aren’t saying which businesses have seen infections at work. A patchwork of rumor, employee notifications and media reports have taken the place of the systematic reporting seen elsewhere.
Lining Up for Health IT The huge challenges of implementing a $30 billion program are just beginning to hit the states. Andy Kim | July 2010
To get a sense of the information technology (IT) challenges states face under the new health-care law, take a quick peek at Jonah Frohlich s schedule. On a recent day, California s deputy secretary for health IT started the morning by meeting with the leaders of 12 departments from the state s Health and Human Services Agency. The agenda: the implications of a health information exchange (HIE) on the agency s business processes. Next up, a get-together with officials from the California Public Employees Retirement System the pension fund is a large employer to discuss the role their purchases play in supporting e-health initiatives. Then it was on to a briefing on Medi-Cal s electronic health record (EHR) incentives, which was followed by a meeting with academics at a University of Californi