Alex Antoneshyn reports: A Camrose medical clinic employee has been fined and given 180 hours of community service after improperly accessing health records of friends and others. According to the office of the privacy commissioner, Olivia Franc accessed the files at the Smith Clinic where she worked. Her employer reported the privacy breach in June…
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Coronavirus Schools Are Buying Up Surveillance Technology to Fight COVID-19
Colin Lecher reports: Fayette County Public Schools, a 24-school district in Georgia, reopened its classroom doors last month. As at many schools around the country, officials in Fayette have concerns about safely bringing students back to school amid a pandemic—and they’re turning to surveillance technology for help. …. But is this surveillance technology useful at preventing…
California Moves Two COVID Privacy Bills Forward
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: Two bills dealing with processing COVID-19 data in California were referred to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Assembly Bill 660 prohibits data collected, received or prepared for purposes of contact tracing from being used or disclosed for any purpose other than facilitating contact tracing efforts. It also requires the data…
Alphabet’s Verily Plans to Use Big Data for Health Insurance
Kristen V. Brown reports: Verily, the Alphabet Inc. life sciences unit that’s previously targeted mosquito-borne illness and launched Covid-19 testing programs, is getting into the health insurance business. On Tuesday, the San Francisco Bay Area company announced a new subsidiary named Coefficient Insurance that will also be backed by Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, the commercial insurance unit of Swiss…