From the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: The Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) outbreak imposes additional challenges on health care providers. Often questions arise about the ability of entities covered by the HIPAA regulations to share information, including with friends and family, public health officials, and emergency personnel. As summarized in more detail below,…
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UK: Data protection and coronavirus: what you need to know
From the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), this FAQ: The ICO recognises the unprecedented challenges we are all facing during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. We know you might need to share information quickly or adapt the way you work. Data protection will not stop you doing that. It’s about being proportionate – if something feels excessive…
New Data Rules Could Empower Patients but Undermine Their Privacy
From the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept. Natasha Singer reports: In a move intended to give Americans greater control over their medical information, the Trump administration announced broad new rules on Monday that will allow people for the first time to use apps of their choice to retrieve data like their blood test results directly from their health…
Schools’ biometrics trials fined in Poland, launched in NJ, and criticized in Australia
Luana Pascu reports: A school in Gdansk, Poland, has been fined PLN 20,000 (roughly US$5,300) by the European Data Protection Board over a biometric data processing breach that affected 680 children in the 2019-2020 school year. The school used a biometric reader to process student’s fingerprints as a form of identification and lunch payment verification, however the…