Cindy Harper reports: A British woman has been threatened with a visit from police for refusing to download the NHS coronavirus tracking app on her smartphone and allowing herself to be tracked. This the latest story in how the coronavirus is leading to an erosion of civil liberties in many countries. The woman recently tested…
Category: Healthcare
Intrusive, omnipresent surveillance growing during COVID-19 pandemic, UN expert warns
Widespread use of contact tracing technology to fight the COVID-19 pandemic has led to almost incessant and omnipresent surveillance in some parts of the world, a UN expert on privacy told the General Assembly today. “This is a very disturbing trend; all-pervasive surveillance is no panacea for COVID-19,” Joseph Cannataci, UN Special Rapporteur on the…
HIPAA doesn’t create any reasonable expectation of privacy in blood toxicology for medical treatment: Court
Via FourthAmendment.com: HIPAA doesn’t create a reasonable expectation of privacy in one’s blood sample obtained for medical treatment. HIPAA recognizes criminal process to obtain it. Consuelo v. State, 2020 Tex. App. LEXIS 8460 (Tex. App. – Dallas Oct. 27, 2020).
Ministry ‘clueless’ over who created Arogya Setu App, RTI body issues notice to govt
This is somewhat stunning about a well-known and promoted app to help trace COVID-19. Newsroom Post reports: Aarogya Setu website says it was designed, developed and hosted by the National Informatics Centre, however, in reply to an RTI query, NIC as well as Ministry of Information Technology have denied any knowledge on who created this…