One of my go-to HIPAA law resources is attorney Jeff Drummond. He and I often disagree on politics, but I will always consider what he says This week, I found myself seriously disagreeing with one of Jeff’s blog posts. Unless you’ve been living under a rock this week, you already know about the brouhaha when…
Category: Healthcare
Data, Privacy, Pandemic: India just had the Biggest Medical Records Breach Ever
Oommen C. Kurian writes: Public debate this week has been dominated by how WhatsApp compromises personal data and privacy, and the pros and cons of its competitors. On 5 January, there was a story on a technology portal about how details of COVID-19 test results of tens of thousands of patients were leaked on the net through…
Loblaw’s points economy for private-health data follows Big Tech’s playbook
Vass Bednar is the executive director of McMaster University’s new master of public policy in digital society program Should personal health information be tethered to rewards and leveraged for advertising purposes? In October, Loblaw Cos. Ltd. unveiled a mobile application that refers shoppers to health services and ties loyalty points to wellness behaviours. Developed in a partnership with…
B.C. ministry warned birth alerts ‘illegal and unconstitutional’ months before banning them
Bayleigh Marelj writes: Months before British Columbia officially ended the controversial practice of birth alerts, government lawyers advised the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) that the practice was “illegal and unconstitutional” and posed a “litigation risk,” according to records obtained by IndigiNews. When a social worker feels an expectant parent may put their…