Law professor and privacy scholar Daniel Solove writes: I recently wrote a post about my concerns about the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) (updated version after markup is here), a bill making its way through Congress that has progress further than many other attempts at a comprehensive privacy law. Despite grading the law a B+, I was skeptical of…
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Police Are Using Newborn Genetic Screening to Search for Suspects, Threatening Privacy and Public Health
Crystal Grant writes: Nearly every baby born in the U.S. has blood drawn in the immediate hours after their birth, allowing the baby to be tested for a panel of potentially life-threatening inherited disorders. This is a vital public health program, enabling early treatment of newborns with genetic disorders; for them, it can be the…
Public comment period closing soon on West Virginia’s submission manual for All-Payer-Claims Database
PogoWasRight.org received a request from the reader named below to share a call for action in West Virginia concerning the state’s All-Payer-Claims Database: Listen up folks, this is IMPORTANT and yes, there is something YOU CAN DO to help prevent YOUR PRIVATE HEALTH INFORMATION from getting into the hands of a ALL POWERFUL government database….
A Faustian Bargain: Is Preemption Too High a Price for a Federal Privacy Law?
Privacy law scholar and professor Daniel Solove offers some thoughts on the proposed federal privacy law, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) … The ADPPA bill itself isn’t too bad. In my view, Congress is generally a D student when writing laws, and the ADPPA is a B+. The ADPPA has a lot…