Despite Apple's privacy rules for app developers, many iPhone apps still access the phones' unique device identifiers. A study by University of California, San Diego researchers recently found that 48 ...

Does an identity have to be unique? I think we’ll get little argument if we claim that, within a given context, an identity (that is, some distinguishable object) must have a unique identifier.

Last September, we wrote about FDA’s request for comments on the use of unique identifiers for medical devices. Since then, FDA received almost 90 comments, many of them from industry. A lot of them ...

A voluntary, patient-controlled system of unique identifiers is the only way to ensure acceptable levels of safety and accuracy when exchanging medical information through an electronic national ...

Antivirus software is something that can help people be safer and more private on the Internet. But its protections can cut both ways. A case in point: for almost four years, AV products from ...