From rhoskins@home.com Sat Apr 17 15:04:44 1999 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id PAA48602 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:04:44 -0700 Received: from ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (siteadm@ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id PAA08423 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:04:43 -0700 Received: from c501552a ([24.5.121.123]) by ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA1160; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:04:42 -0700 Message-ID: <01a101be891e$2c9d8ee0$7b790518@olmpi1.wa.home.com> From: "Richard E. Hoskins" To: Cc: "Juliet" Subject: WAPHGIS: moving data around and confidentiality Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 15:03:49 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_019E_01BE88E3.7F7E7420" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_019E_01BE88E3.7F7E7420 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear colleagues: =20 We have had a bit of discussion on GIS & privacy issues and I would like = to inquire about something a little bit larger in scope. What polices to = you have in place concerning transferring public health data from here = to there, like in my case from the WA State DOH to the U of WA? A = standard encryption scheme, no it's not done, OK but never with any = identifiers, just what? One can imagine someone intercepting a shp file = with the STD cases in some county and then loading that into ArcView and = zooming right to street level and of course viewing any attribute data. = Of course the danger is far wider than GIS coverages.=20 And if you have policies, can you describe the process you used to = develop them? Mostly a political decision, common sense, an objective = analysis with some risk calculations?=20 Thanks Richard E. Hoskins=20 GIS & Spatial Epidemiology Group WA State Dept. of Health 1102 Quince Street Olympia, WA 98504-7812 Tel: (360) 236-4270 reh0303@doh.wa.gov ------=_NextPart_000_019E_01BE88E3.7F7E7420 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear colleagues: 
 
We have had a bit of discussion on GIS = &=20 privacy issues and I would like to inquire about something a little bit = larger=20 in scope. What polices to you have in place concerning transferring = public=20 health data from here to there, like in my case from the WA State DOH = to the U=20 of WA? A standard encryption scheme, no it's not done, OK but never with = any=20 identifiers, just what? One can imagine someone intercepting a shp file = with the=20 STD cases in some county and then loading that into ArcView and zooming = right to=20 street level and of course viewing any attribute data. Of course the = danger is=20 far wider than GIS coverages.
 
And if you have policies, can you = describe the=20 process you used to develop them?  Mostly a political decision, = common=20 sense, an objective analysis with some risk calculations?
 
Thanks
 
Richard E. Hoskins
GIS & = Spatial=20 Epidemiology Group
WA State Dept. of Health
1102 Quince = Street
Olympia,=20 WA 98504-7812
Tel: (360) 236-4270
reh0303@doh.wa.gov
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