Woodlock Gags Speech, Again

America has a sad “gag rule” history few Americans know. …the U.S. House of Representatives instituted the “gag rule,” the first instance of what would become a traditional practice forbidding the House from considering anti-slavery petitions. Representative James Hammond of South Carolina first proposed the gag rule in December 1835. It lasted years, and was … Continue reading Woodlock Gags Speech, Again

Using your medical records to convict your family

The San Francisco Chronicle has posted a story about the Kansas BTK killings that brings to light the privacy issues with family-wide medical records. [Detectives] learned that Rader had a daughter who had attended Kansas State University, and they reasoned that at some point she must have used the medical clinic, said Wichita police Lt. … Continue reading Using your medical records to convict your family