Colin Butler reports: The London Police Service used a provincial database containing the personal health records of people who tested positive for COVID-19 at one of the highest rates in Ontario, snooping on private medical information 10,475 times between April and July. Law enforcement gained the unprecedented power to access people’s personal medical information when the database…
Category: Healthcare
Fearing coronavirus, a Michigan college tracks its students with a flawed app
Zack Whittaker reports: Albion College, a small liberal arts school in Michigan, said in June it would allow its nearly 1,500 students to return to campus for the new academic year starting in August. Lectures would be limited in size and the semester would finish by Thanksgiving rather than December. The school said it would test both staff and students…
No to Expanded HHS Surveillance of COVID-19 Patients
Adam Schwartz writes: The federal government plans to process more of our personal data, in the name of containing COVID-19, but without showing that this serious privacy intrusion would actually do anything to protect public health. EFF filed comments in opposition to these new plans from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The U.S….
IMA, legal experts call NDHM ‘absolutely unnecessary’
Ashish Srivastava reports: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) and legal experts have raised a red flag over the National Digital Health Mission (NDHM), launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the occasion of the 74th Independence Day on Saturday. The IMA officials and legal experts shared serious concerns about the confidentiality and privacy of the…