By Cindy Cohn and Corynne McSherry Today’s decision deprives millions of people of a fundamental right, and also underscores the importance of fair and meaningful protections for data privacy. Everyone deserves to have strong controls over the collection and use of information they necessarily leave behind as they go about their normal activities, like using…
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Medical Privacy Loses in the (Wisconsin) Hagedorn Court
M.D. Kittle reported on June 10: The Evers administration is free to disclose private medical information from businesses thanks to Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn, the conservative in name only who once again sided with Big Government liberals on the court. In a 4-3 ruling, the majority agreed with the liberal District IV Court of Appeals, the…
Judges clip EU countries’ wings on collecting travel data
Vincent Manancourt reports: European Union countries can no longer force airlines to hand over reams of passenger data — at least for flights within the 27-member bloc, according to an EU top court ruling on Tuesday. The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) said requirements for airlines to shuttle passenger data to national authorities…
Paving a Digital Road to Hell? A Primer on the Role of the World Bank and Global Networks in Promoting Digital ID
Digital Welfare State and Human Rights Project Center for Human Rights and Global Justice NYU School of Law June 2022 The beginning of the Executive Summary: Governments around the world are designing or implementing digital identification systems, often with biometric components (digital ID). The spread of these systems is driven by a new development consensus…