Recent awareness that Google had made secret deals with various healthcare providers to gain access to patient health data, but without the agreement or knowledge of the patient themselves raised …
Via infoDOCKET: U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) today introduced legislation to prevent data mining of Americans’ personal health data stored on wearable personal devices, such as smartwatches. …
From Wired: Google’s plan to buy Fitbit took chutzpah from the start. The company was already being investigated by Congress, state attorneys general, and federal antitrust regulators, a reflection of growing …
From NYTimes: A Florida judge approved a broad warrant that allowed law enforcement full, nonspecific access to the entire DNA database of GEDmatch, despite explicit opt-out by the users. Last …
Privacy takes multiple sides when it comes to data: it is not about the staunch prohibition of data being collected, used and shared, but also about the clear understanding of …
Using the provisions of a Business Associate Agreement, Google slurps up data from Ascension Health, the second-largest health group in the US. Patients are not (and don’t have to be …
