Roughly 36 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, meaning their sensitive data could be targeted. This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced plans to develop a “real-world data platform” using Medicare and Medicaid records to investigate “the root causes of autism.” The announcement comes after officials previously...
The Trump administration this week reportedly classified thousands of immigrants living in the United States as dead in a Social Security database in an effort to force them out of the country, a scheme that was met with furious uproar from advocates and lawmakers. By entering the names and Social Security numbers of roughly 6,000...