Lindsay Brewer of Covington & Burling writes: On Friday, April 19, 2019, the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) explained in an FAQ the circumstances under which electronic health record (EHR) systems may be subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) liability…
Category: Govt
Are You a New York City Voter? Your Personal Information Just Became Far More Public
Vivian Wang reports: Are you registered to vote in New York City? If so, then anyone can find out your party affiliation, full name and home address down to the apartment number — all with a few mouse clicks. The city’s Board of Elections recently posted its voter enrollment lists to its website, a massive…
Skip the Surveillance By Opting Out of Face Recognition At Airports
Jason Kelley of EFF writes: Government agencies and airlines have ignored years of warnings from privacy groups and Senators that using face recognition technology on travelers would massively violate their privacy. Now, the passengers are in revolt as well, and they’re demanding answers. Last week, a lengthy exchange on Twitter between a traveler who was…
Facebook Data Breach Broke Canada’s Privacy Laws, Regulators Say
Kelsey Sutton reports: Officials from Canada have concluded that Facebook “committed serious contraventions of Canadian privacy laws” when the personal data of more than 87 million worldwide users (and 622,000 Canadians) was leaked and leveraged by Cambridge Analytica. Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner said today that it planned to take Facebook to federal court…