Lead paragraphs:
"Rather than beat up on the NSA on data privacy matters, you may need to look no farther than your healthcare provider. Your doctor or local clinic will be means by which the federal government will know more about you than any intelligence agency. HHS should be more of a concern, not the FBI, NSA, CIA, DIA, or any other national security entity.
If your family uses Aetna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente, or UnitedHealthCare, your “de-indentified” personal healthcare information is being used in a national study that includes various federal agencies (non of which include the NSA, CIA, DoD). You can read more about the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), here. As far as “de-identified” information (a term used by the HCCI and other groups to ameliorate data privacy concerns), as the Snowden leaker case demonstrates, when the data and keys fall into the wrong or unscrupulous hands bad things happen.
Do you think your electronic healthcare data is safe and secure?"
While he uses the term "de-identified" the more common term is anonymized. That is a separation of personal identity from the information related to that person in a manner that theoretically cannot be connected. Therefore, personal information is safeguarded.
Secret government intelligence gathering seeks to connect people to to communication information content. Communication content in the case of anonymization is protected by separation. In both cases data interception/acquisition and mining are the same or similar processes certainly using similar or the same computer/network system programs. Programs obviously funded in the intelligence world being applied to the non-intelligence, generally commercial world.
Some say (google what some say on this topic) that there is no such thing as anonymization. What is anonymized can always be connected back to the source connection. That is the business of intelligence.
Anonymizing in the non-intelligence world is a bonus for the intelligence world of information gathering. While apparent protections of data in the non-intelligence world protect data, and probably protect it well, the connection cannot be be protected from the intelligence gathering world.
Funny how I came across this by accident while researching HHS, the stock symbol for Hart Hankes.
I stumbled on Hart Hankes while researching Dragon Research Group
Dragon Research Group is connected with a CERT team member (through sharing the same telephone number in a Florida city) which is where my research began. I connected to CERT through CYMRU. More about Team CYRMU here. CERT has interesting worldwide connections.
The intent of all this research is the investment strategy that says what is good for all the NSA intelligence effort (Nothing of any real value by any measurement of investment to results) is good for the commercial world where intelligence results in big bucks. Those contractors creating/providing/hosting intelligence to the NSA are also making commercial application where there is a big pay off in marketing. Hart Hankes is a marketing company but it looks more like a commercial intelligence company.
Marketing is morphing into intelligence.
If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut. By Albert Einstein
- Team Cymru, Inc. 901 International Parkway Suite 350 Lake Mary, FL 32746 US
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