David Wells reports: A doctor who provided abortion services for a 10-year-old rape victim sued the state’s Republican attorney general to stop investigations she says are based on frivolous consumer complaints. The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Marion County on behalf of Dr. Caitlin Bernard and her medical partner Dr. Amy Caldwell, who claim Attorney General Todd Rokita has…
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King County proposed mental health study on students after insisting it wasn’t doing research
Daniel Gilbert reports: Since King County began screening schoolkids for mental health and other risks, officials have been adamant: They’re respecting student privacy and not conducting research on them. But in April, the program’s coordinator was emailing school district officials with a new ask: The county and Seattle Children’s were seeking a grant to do…
Can a new form of cryptography solve the internet’s privacy problem?
Alex Bellos reports: Rachel is a student at a US university who was sexually assaulted on campus. She decided against reporting it (fewer than 10% of survivors do). What she did, however, was register the assault on a website that is using novel ideas from cryptography to help catch serial sexual predators. The organisation Callisto lets a survivor…
Editorial: Change registration form to end uproar over menstrual history privacy
An editorial in the Palm Beach Post begins: Let’s get to the good news first: The Florida High School Athletic Association has decided to rethink asking student athletes about their menstrual histories. It shouldn’t have taken community outrage for the association to see that such highly personal medical information shouldn’t be requested on a student athletic registration form. When it meets…