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….
Category: Govt
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…
EU Commission Sued Over Alleged Transatlantic Data Breach to the US
Trishla Ostwal reports: The government body of the European Union, the European Commission, is facing a lawsuit over an alleged data breach related to transferring personal data from Europe to the U.S. The lawsuit—now admitted by the General Court of the European Union (EGC)—alleges the use of Amazon Web Services, the use of Facebook login…
Preliminary reactions to American Data Privacy Protection Act revised draft — EFF
Seen on Twitter yesterday, some preliminary thoughts by EFF on ADPPA revisions: First, the bill would override many kinds of state privacy laws. EFF opposes rolling back state privacy protections to meet a lower federal standard. https://t.co/S2yNk5NyHw — EFF (@EFF) July 20, 2022 Today, @RepAnnaEshoo proposed an amendment to protect states’ abilities to build on…