Sarah Owermohle reports: The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes of autism. The database — which HHS said will draw from insurance claims, medical records and data from…
Kenyan court orders Worldcoin to delete all biometric data
Sam Adeyemo reports: A Kenyan high court has ruled that decentralized identity protocol Worldcoin’s collection of biometric data violated the country’s data protection laws. The court has now ordered the firm to permanently delete all biometric data it has collected within seven days of the ruling. According to reports in Kenyan media, Worldcoin failed to conduct a…
Virginia Governor Signs into Law Bill Restricting Minors’ Use of Social Media
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On May 2, 2025, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed into law a bill that amends the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”) to impose significant restrictions on minors’ use of social media. The bill comes on the heels of recent children’s privacy amendments to the VCDPA that took effect on January 1, 2025. The bill amends the…
Objections to blanket approval for USCIS surveillance of social media
Ed Hasbrouck writes: Today the Identity Project, Privacy Times, and Government Information Watch filed comments objecting to a proposal by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for blanket advance approval for USCIS to demand that all foreigners submitting any sort of application to USCIS provide a statement under penalty of perjury a list of all social media “platforms” and…