This rant originally stemmed from a question to which my wife asked me to respond — she works in health care and saw that there is a carve-out for Protected Health Information (PHI) being sent via fax under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). …

Your online actions were not private last month, they aren’t private now, and nobody is going to protect you if you don’t do it for yourself. It’s not about ISPs or search engine companies; it’s about advertisers, it’s about governments, politics, ratings, clicks, time-on-page, and about targeting specific demographics. There…