“Many home computer users don’t realize it, but the next time they download a movie, a video or some old sentimental song, they may be giving an intruder the opportunity to search the PC’s files for sensitive information, including their health records, a new study finds.
What kind of sensitive information? Well, according to Khaled El Emam, Canada research chair at the University of Ottawa, and the lead on a research paper on the inadvertent disclosure of personal information through peer-to-peer file sharing programs, the information found was “very personal and very rich in detail”.”
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Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare, 18 March 2010
Article (El Emam 2010)
