Evan Halper reports: It was a crowded primary field and Tony Evers, running for governor, was eager to win the support of officials gathered at a Wisconsin state Democratic Party meeting, so the candidate did all the usual things: He read the room, he shook hands, he networked. Then he put an electronic fence around…
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You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook.
Sam Schechner and Mark Secada report: Millions of smartphone users confess their most intimate secrets to apps, including when they want to work on their belly fat or the price of the house they checked out last weekend. Other apps know users’ body weight, blood pressure, menstrual cycles or pregnancy status. Unbeknown to most people,…
Ontario’s privacy commissioner to investigate sale of health data
Updating a story reported previously, Sheryl Spithoff reports: The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario is launching an investigation in the wake of a Toronto Star story about the sale of patient medical records. U.S. health data giant IQVIA says it has the potential to access the health records of five million…
No Damages Required to Sue Under Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act
Anjali C. Das, Brian Dollar, Stefanie L. Ferrari, and David H. Potter of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP write: …. Following the rise of the use of biometric information, the Illinois Legislature passed the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) in 2008 to provide standards of conduct to help regulate how biometric information is collected,…