Russell Berman reports: A dozen years ago, a deadly virus was spreading around the world, and authorities in New York issued a mandate that all health-care workers in the state get vaccinated. The American Civil Liberties Union objected. Forced vaccination against the H1N1 flu, the ACLU wrote at the time, “was not warranted.” The organization’s New…
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GAO: Exposure Notification: Benefits and Challenges of Smartphone Applications to Augment Contact Tracing
GAO-21-104622 Published: Sep 09, 2021 Publicly Released: Sep 09, 2021 What GAO Found Exposure notification applications (apps)—which determine the proximity of users and notify people who have been in close contact with another user who was likely infectious—are expected to enhance the speed and reach of contact tracing and help slow the spread of infectious…
Justice Department sues Texas over near-total abortion ban
Erik de la Garza reports: The Biden Justice Department on Thursday filed a lawsuit challenging Texas’ near-total abortion ban as an “unconstitutional attack” on women that deprives them of abortion services “in open defiance” of U.S. Supreme Court precedent. “The act is clearly unconstitutional under longstanding Supreme Court precedent,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at…
U.K. Health Department to End Data Contract With Palantir
Bloomberg Law reports: The U.K. government is ending a data deal with Palantir Technologies Inc., following criticism from privacy groups about the lack of transparency on how the contracts were awarded to the U.S. data giant. The Department of Health and Social Care put out a tender in August to shift its Adult Social Care Dashboard away…