Samantha Cole reports: When retired web developer Catherine Kunicki tried to sign up for her first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in downtown Brooklyn, the AdvantageCare Physicians website rejected her. She received an error message that her identity couldn’t be verified through Experian, a credit monitoring company. She said she’s felt “horrified” at the amount…
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CA: Judge orders Alameda County to release nursing home COVID-19 data
Angela Ruggiero reports: Alameda County must release records to this news organization revealing how many people at nursing homes and other long-term congregate care facilities were infected with COVID-19 and how many died, as well as the names of facilities with confirmed cases, a judge has decided. Read more on Mercury News.
Should Amazon AWS’s termination of Parler’s contract make HIPAA-covered entities concerned?
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…
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…