With the multitude of data breaches in the news lately, it seemed like it was just a matter of time until one of them affected me personally. The proliferation of web services, e-commerce and records automation means that our data is on file at so many locations that the odds of being impacted are growing every day. Sure enough, I received a letter from Stanford University hospital last week letting me know that my medical records had inadvertently been posted on a public internet site for over a year.
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