Neglect of information privacy instruction

Abstract

Not only should InformationTechnology (IT) Educators be knowledgeable regarding data privacy legislation but they should be teaching correct system and database design principles to IT students in order to ensure future application design compliance with international legislative trends. Perhaps the most contentious and serious issue facing IT practitioners in the world today is data privacy. Data Privacy impacts every aspect of IT from database and application design to privacy and use policies, and system security and information assurance. The European Union Directive legislation has aggressively set the pattern of excellence in preserving individual data privacy worldwide, and Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Document Act exerts an influence on U.S. commerce Within the U.S. laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act seek to protect information privacy in specific industries.

The security issue of federated data warehouses in the area of evidence-based medicine

“…Although different means of protecting such confidential data exist (described in Section 3) insurance companies generally reject the idea of creating any physical copy of their internal data. Legislation aimed at protecting personal data, like HIPPA in the USA, PIPEDA in Canada or EU Data Protection directive [9], which took effect during the last decade, gives additional support to such a decision.…”