Jeremy Hainsworth reports: A patient’s data is not the personal information of his or her doctor, B.C.’s Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has ruled. A doctor under investigation by the Medical Services Commission (MSC) had requested under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) all information held about him –…
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UK COVID-19 contact-tracing app data may be kept for ‘research’ after crisis ends, MPs told
Gareth Corfield reports: Britons will not be able to ask NHS admins to delete their COVID-19 contact-tracking data from government servers, digital arm NHSX’s chief exec Matthew Gould admitted to MPs this afternoon. Gould also told Parliament’s Human Rights Committee that data harvested from Britons through NHSX’s COVID-19 contact tracing app would be “pseudonymised” –…
AU: Jail terms for those who breach COVID app privacy law
David Crowe reports: Tougher privacy laws will be put to Parliament next week in a bid to jail anyone who breaches the safeguards in the federal government’s new coronavirus tracing app, with police and security agencies exposed to the sanctions. Access to the highly sensitive data will be restricted to state health agencies and those…
Group wants CRTC to do more to protect privacy amid contact tracing debate
The Canadian Press reports: Canada’s telecommunications regulator should do more to protect the privacy rights of cellphone and internet users from abuse as public health authorities and their allies seek new ways trace the spread of COVID-19, a consumer rights group said Monday in a formal filing with the CRTC. The Public Interest Advocacy Centre…