… says a data scientist, Luke Miner. He seems to want us all to feel guilty if we don’t share our health data more, because think of all the progress in healthcare that COULD be made, if only…. So Miner’s solution seems to be to relax the federal prohibitions and requirements for sharing. Sorry, Luke….
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Slovak Data Protection Authority fines Faculty Hospital Nitra for providing medical records to expert witness
Peter Kováč and Lukáš Mrázik of Kinstellar write: The Slovak Data Protection Authority (“Slovak DPA”) has fined Faculty Hospital Nitra EUR 2,000 for unlawfully processing sensitive personal data in breach of § 13 section 1 of Act. No 122/2013 Coll., On Personal Data Protection (“Data Protection Act 2013”). The Slovak DPA found the hospital in…
A West Point cadet died in a skiing accident in February. A judge just ruled his parents can use his frozen sperm
AP reports: The parents of a 21-year-old West Point cadet fatally injured in a skiing accident can use his frozen sperm to produce a child, a judge ruled while noting potential ethical considerations. Supreme Court Justice John Colangelo’s ruling, dated Thursday, gives Peter Zhu’s parents the ability to attempt conception with a surrogate mother using…
The Arrest Of A Teen On An Assault Charge Has Sparked New Privacy Fears About DNA Sleuthing
Peter Aldhous reports: For the first time on record, the new forensic science of genetic genealogy has been used to identify a suspect in a case of violent assault. Cops in Utah had to obtain special permission to upload crime scene DNA to a website called GEDmatch, which had previously only allowed police to investigate…