The advent of electronic health records has greatly benefited the healthcare industry in both the United States and Canada. With wider access to patients' medical files, physicians can call up critical information during a medical emergency and share those records with fellow doctors if a patient needs to seek treatment at another hospital. However, like any other digital ...

In the aftermath of the media's whirlwind coverage of the recent uncovering of the NSA surveillance program and the U.S. government's attempts to convince major corporations to share user information, many people have viewed the security of their personal information with renewed interest. Most of that focus, however, has been on protecting sensitive data from massive corp...