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Daily Dashboard | Opinion: Surveillance Should Be “Last Resort” Related reading: OMB to issue government-wide AI risk mitigation directive

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Hospitals are multimillion-dollar corporations that “look like shopping malls and function like factories,” but we do expect some degree of privacy there, an expectation bolstered by laws like HIPAA and the 2,000-year-old Hippocratic Oath doctors must take, writes Tim Lahey in an op-ed for The New York Times. However, the use of inexpensive, high-tech cameras to monitor the safety of children or the elderly or to ensure employee compliance with hospital policies, among other uses, is increasingly common—and the rules and ethics on such surveillance are a bit fuzzy, Lahey says, adding, hidden cameras “should be a last resort.” (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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