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Google Health

As a Canadian, I would not place my private medical information in a site based in the United States such as Google Health. On this site you can input information such as your age, your medication list and your personal medical history.

See Google Health Tour

TechCrunch – Google Health: A Quick Hands-On Look

The big competition here is between Google Health and Microsoft’s HealthVault.

USA PATRIOT Act

Among its provisions, the Act increases the ability of law enforcement agencies to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial and other records

Patriot Act haunts Google service

For instance, a Lakehead researcher with a Middle Eastern name, researching anthrax or nuclear energy, might find himself denied entry to the United States without ever knowing why.

Patriot Act seen as threat to Canadians’ privacy

Considerably more could be done to prevent foreign governments, Washington in particular, from collecting personal information about Canadians, Canada’s privacy commissioner said in her annual report.

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