Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On July 24, 2022, the Financial Express published an article on Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Indian Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, noting that the introduction of the Indian Data Protection Bill (the “Bill”) before Parliament will be delayed by a few months. The Bill was expected to be tabled during the…
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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…