Provides in-depth coverage of medical data privacy research and the current technologiesExplores issues of privacy regarding genetic information (DNA), XML documents, and RFID tagsIncludes survey chapters on privacy-preserving algorithms for publishing medical dataIncludes numerous case studies, examples, figures and discussions in a user-friendly formatProvides coverage of the US and EU privacy legislation for medical data sharing, discusses major cases of privacy breaches in the healthcare domain and their associated costs