Lawrence J. Spiwak writes that developments in the past year have resulted in consumers being farther away from good privacy protection: Our story begins with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) controversial decision to reclassify broadband Internet access as a Title II common carrier telecommunications service in its 2015 Open Internet Order With reclassification, two related legal…
Category: Govt
ZA: Health authorities want to illegally access private information
Wilmot James, the Democratic Alliance (DA) Shadow Minister of Health, writes: The DA have a letter from the Health Minister, Aaron Motsoaledi, to the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) in July last year in which he requested the CMS to collect private data about medical scheme members in order maintain a ‘Beneficiary Registry’ of members. His…
Coinbase says fighting IRS subpoena could cost up to $1 million
Cyrus Farivar reports: Coinbase’s CEO, Brian Armstrong, has estimated that it will cost the company between $100,000 and $1 million to defend its customers from what he described as an “overly broad subpoena.” Last month, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Coinbase could be ordered, at the request of the Internal Revenue Service, to provide years of…
Four States Join InterConnect, a Prescription Data Sharing Network
From the press release: More than 55 million people from the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Texas are now covered by the prescription monitoring program (PMP) data sharing system administered by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy® (NABP®) and technology partner Appriss Health. The addition of these states to the NABP PMP InterConnect® network brings the total collaboration to 37 states…