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This Friday, October 14, Kyle and Martin E. will be leading a discussion about Online Health Information Systems. You can find links to the papers for this week at http://foswiki.cs.grinnell.edu/foswiki/bin/view/Courses/HealthCareAndCom... As usual, we'll meet around noon in JRC 224A. Hope to see you there!

This Friday, October 14, Kyle and Martin E. will be leading a discussion about Online Health Information Systems. You can find links to the papers for this week at http://foswiki.cs.grinnell.edu/foswiki/bin/view/Courses/HealthCareAndCom... ng/OHIS As usual, we'll meet around noon in JRC 224A. Hope to see you there!

This Friday at CS Table, Martin and Alicia will be leading a discussion about Personal Health Care Records, discussing some past and current implementations of EHRs. We'll meet at noon in JRC 224A. The readings can be found at the following link: http://foswiki.cs.grinnell.edu/foswiki/bin/view/Courses/HealthCareAndCom... All are welcome!

This Friday at CS Table, Kyle and Josh will be leading a discussion about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and how to meet its requirements for health information privacy and security. As usual, we'll meet at noon in JRC 224A. See http://foswiki.cs.grinnell.edu/foswiki/bin/view/Courses/HealthCareAndCom... for readings.

This Friday at CS Table, Simon and Jeff will present the information contained in packet headers and lead a continued discussion on network surveillance. We suggest the following reading (as much as you have interest or time for):

*ResNet Guidelines and Policies
*Ellen Nakashima, US seeks ways to wiretap the Internet, Washington Post, Sept 27, 2010.
*Paul Ohm, When Network Neutrality Met Privacy, CACM 53(4):30-32, April 2010.
*Kristina Irion, International Communications Surveillance, CACM 52(2):26-28, Feb 2009.
*TCP Protocol Layers Explained, Dru Lavigne, ONLamp.com, March 14, 2001.
*Capturing TCP Packets, Dru Lavigne, ONLamp.com, March 21, 2001.
*IP Packets Revealed, Dru Lavigne, ONLamp.com, March 28, 2001.

As usual, we'll meet a little after noon in JRC 224A.

Students who are registered for CSC 295: We'll be doing sign-ups for after fall break. Please bring your calendars!

This Friday at CS Table, Dr. Rebelsky and I will be presenting the XCKD comic "Password Reuse".

To add some seriousness to the conversation, please also read

• A. L. Penenberg, Is Google evil?, Mother Jones, October 10, 2006;
• J. Vascellaro, Google Agonizes on Privacy as Ad World Vaults Ahead, Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2010.

As usual, we'll be meeting at noon in JRC 224A. Hope to see you there!