Jacqueline Klosek is an attorney with Goodwin Procter LLP, where she focuses on advising clients on various issues related to data privacy and security. She also drafts and negotiates various technology agreements and advises on different aspects of the law related to intellectual property and technology. Jacqueline is the author of the following books: Protecting Your Health Privacy: A Citizen’s Guide to Safeguarding the Security of Your Medical Information(Praeger, 2010); The Right to Know: Your Guide to Using and Defending Freedom of Information Law in the United States (Praeger, 2009); War on Privacy (Praeger, 2006); The Legal Guide to e-Business (Greenwood Publishing, 2003) and Data Privacy in the Information Age (Greenwood Publishing, 2000).

Big Brother is poring over your medical records with a thousand electronic eyes. A cascade of changes in medical privacy law, medical records technology, and employer-provided healthcare programs is dramatically affecting your ability to secure and control your personal health information against privacy breaches that can adversely impact the quality of your health care, your insurability, your employability, your marriage, and your reputation. In plain, nontechnical language, data security lawyer Jacqueline Klosek teaches readers the basics you need to know as an individual healthcare consumer about the ongoing wave of national and state legislation affecting patient privacy. She untangles the increasingly complex and devious ways by which health care providers, insurers, employers, social networking sites, and marketers routinely collect, exploit, and exchange our personal health records.