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…
Category: Healthcare
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…
Lawsuit: Fertility App Maker Sent Data to Google, Facebook
Marianne Kobasuk McGee reports: A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Flo Health, a fertility-tracking mobile app maker, unlawfully shared sensitive user data with Google, Facebook and two other software vendors, who are named as co-defendants in the legal dispute. The lawsuit comes on the heels of a recent settlement between Flo Health and the Federal…
CBS4 Investigates: Miami Hospital Dealing With Invasion Of Privacy Issue, Disturbing Photos Of NICU Baby Posted On Nurse Sierra Samuels’ Social Media
Brooke Shafer reports: Jackson Memorial Hospital is dealing with a disturbing invasion of privacy issue after pictures of a baby born with a birth defect in their neonatal intensive care unit were posted on an employee’s social media account. Jackson Health System said that the employee is now on administrative leave. Read more on CBS4….