The internet has made DNA testing a big global business. In the United States and Europe, millions of people have sent samples of their saliva to commercial labs in the hopes of learning something new about their personal health or lineage. Ancestry.com, 23andMe, MyHeritage, and FamilyTreeDNA are all industry leaders that sell their services online, share test results on websites, and even provide guides on how to find relatives in phone directories or share results on social media. They frequently claim ownership of your genetic information and sell access to their databases to large pharmaceutical and medical technology firms.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced that Medtronic identified a cybersecurity vulnerability in its Paceart Optima System, a platform that manages cardiac device data. This vulnerability is linked to an optional messaging feature. CISA has advised healthcare organizations to liaise with Medtronic's technical support for system updates and to minimize network exposure by potentially taking systems offline. This action is especially crucial for entities operating a joint application and integration server. When necessary, the use of secure virtual private networks is recommended. This alert follows last year's FBI report that flagged multiple cybersecurity vulnerabilities in medical devices, emphasizing the potential risks to patient safety and healthcare operations.

In the field of archival science, the term 'inherent vice' refers to the internal qualities or elements of certain objects that make them naturally prone to deterioration, regardless of the quality of care they receive (Menne-Haritz, 1993). When applying this concept to personal health information management (PHIM), it becomes a metaphor for the challenges that are inherently present in managing health information.