According to Informationweek, the US National Institutes of Health is forbidding employees and contractors from using Macintosh MacBooks for processing personal information due to a lack of encryption on the devices. See: U.S. Health Agency Forbids Sensitive Data On Apple MacBooks - Yahoo! News.
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