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…
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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…
Kansas hospital worker gave info to woman’s rapist. She was raped again, suit says
Luke Nozicka reports: A hospital in northeast Kansas divulged intimate private details of a woman’s sexual assault evaluation and treatment to her rapist, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court. And months later, after a “barrage” of harassment, the woman was raped again by the same man, according to the suit. The woman…
Dutch Data Protection Authority Issues Advisory On Medical Records Under GDPR
Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild writes: “The right to be forgotten does not apply in principle to medical records. However, as a patient, you may ask your health care provider to remove data from your medical record,” according to the Dutch Data Protection Authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AG), which has issued a guidance on GDPR and medical…