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Medical Records Vulnerable to US Intelligence? |
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Written by Bradley Siddell
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 In reaction to privacy advocates' concerns over In-Q-Tel's investment in a Canadian software company that develops patient medical records applications, Ontario's information and privacy commissioner Ann Cavoukian launched an investigation to determine if any private data was exposed to the CIA. The software firm, Initiate Systems, Inc. develops software that manages patient records in Ontario and other Canadian provinces. The investigation showed that personal medical data was not at risk for exposure to U.S. intelligence collection as a result of Initiate's relationship with In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture capital wing. Doug Tighe, an In-Q-Tel spokesman, said that is what his organization maintained all along. Tighe said that just because the CIA was interested in the same data management programs used for Canadian medical records, it did not mean the CIA was interested in Canadians' medical data.
Source: Washington Post
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