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SELECTED KEY FINDINGS ON FIVE CITIES PORTLAND, OREGON Real changes in communities are evident in Portland as a result of a wide range of community Internet projects, some of them long-established. Portland”s Neighborhood Pride Team, initially founded to revitalize a community in southeast Portland, has grown from one computer in 1995 to a skills center […]
This report is intended to give a general overview of how the federal health privacy regulation (“HIPAA”) may or may not apply to health Web sites.
65 million Americans have sought health care information on the Internet Most online health activities are not covered by HIPAA WASHINGTON-Path-breaking new federal rules designed to protect the medical privacy of Americans will not guard the privacy of Internet users when they are doing the most common e-health actions online. The Health Insurance Portability and […]
12% of Internet users have lost a favorite Web site 17% have been asked to pay for something that used to be free online Most online Americans adjust easily Major findings The dot-com problems and their impact on the Web Some Americans” Internet experiences are beginning to be affected by the dot-com meltdown, but the […]
Introduction and Summary The public’s worries over terrorism have declined since mid-October, despite government warnings of new attacks and recurring anthrax incidents. But this decrease in concern is not being felt uniformly across the country, and is not associated with greater confidence in the government’s ability to deal with the terrorist threat. If anything, Americans […]