Over at Inforrm’s Blog, Suneet Sharma writes: Inforrm covered a wide range of data protection and privacy cases in 2021. Following my posts in 2018, 2019 and 2020 here is my selection of most notable privacy and data protection cases across 2021: Lloyd v Google LLC [2021] UKSC 50 In the most significant privacy law judgment of the year the UK…
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HHS Issues Guidance on HIPAA and Disclosures of Protected Health Information for Extreme Risk Protection Orders
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) through its Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is issuing guidance to help clarify how the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule permits covered health care providers to disclose protected health information to support applications for extreme risk protection orders that temporarily prevent…
Daniel Solove’s generous gift to us all
Privacy law scholar Professor Daniel J. Solove writes: I’m delighted to announce that I have posted the full text of my book, NOTHING TO HIDE: THE FALSE TRADEOFF BETWEEN PRIVACY AND SECURITY (Yale University Press 2011) for free. With the press’s permission, I’m posting the entire book on SSRN, free for personal use. Students assigned the book for a…
Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog makes first ever arrest over doxxing
Selena Cheng reports: A 31-year-old man was arrested by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data in the West Kowloon area following an investigation on Monday, Acting Senior Personal Data Officer Lo Dik-fan told reporters near Cheung Sha Wan police station. The office took enforcement action after receiving a complaint from the victim,…