Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Web 'Scrapers' Look For Personal Information
The Wall Street Journal, as part of a series of stories about privacy on the Web, reports on the practice of scraping in which vendors "harvest online conversations and collect personal details from social-networking sites." Those efforts can pull in medical information, as well as other personal data.
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