Open AccessCommunicating on the Worldwide Web – Dental Practice Websites
Author(s) -
Nigel Knott
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
faculty dental journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2042-6860
pISSN - 2042-6852
DOI - 10.1308/204268515x14174408395803
Subject(s) - headline , the internet , internet privacy , dental practice , business , web site , advertising , medicine , world wide web , computer science , dentistry
The news media are presently filled with headline stories concerning the security of electronic communications and the internet. The Financial Times’ weekend supplement FT Money devoted three pages under the title ‘Hack attack’ and asked whether companies are doing enough to protect data online. 1 Substitute dental practices for companies and we have an unhappy picture of the reasons why so much sensitive personal data is going missing or being accessed without properly informed consent.