Ayanna Alexander reports: …. The new coronavirus crisis is still evolving and the federal government is trying to keep up by waiving certain federal privacy rules, in particular under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. But developers of mobile apps and websites aimed at fighting the virus still have to navigate state privacy laws…
Category: Healthcare
Security, Privacy and the Coronavirus: Lessons From 9/11
Peter Swire writes: A few days after Sept. 11, 2001, I entered the Mott House on Maryland Avenue, not far from the Senate. The national D.C. office of the ACLU was hosting a somber meeting of privacy and civil liberties experts from across the political spectrum. We all recognized that everything on our agenda had changed drastically….
When Is Anonymous Not Really Anonymous?
Sara Harrison writes: As COVID-19 spreads to 50 states this month, the U.S. government is in talks with tech companies including Google and Facebook about possibly using location data from Americans’ cellphones to track the spread of the coronavirus, The Washington Post has reported. Public health officials are exploring whether the data could help them understand…
Europe’s Other Coronavirus Victim: Information and Data Rights
Marija Ristic, Milica Stojanovic, Miroslava German Sirotnikova, Akos Keller-Alant, Hamdi Firat Buyuk, Anja Vladisavljevic, Marcel Gascón Barberá and Madalin Necsutu write: …. Just in the last two weeks, 80 people have been arrested, some of them jailed, for spreading fake news and disinformation, with the most draconic examples in Turkey, Serbia, Hungary and Montenegro. Governments…