Carol Ann Alaimo reports: One of this year’s hottest holiday gifts has privacy advocates worried. In Tucson and elsewhere, sales of home DNA testing kits are soaring, spurred by discount pricing and ubiquitous TV ads that promise users insights into their family heritage. But the saliva tests can also reveal propensities for diseases, and critics…
Category: Healthcare
Will the Department of State start collecting medical details on visa applicants?
Does the president’s extreme vetting now include asking about visa applicants’ medical status? How much medical information should visa applicants have to disclose? And on what medical basis will decisions be made to approve or reject the application? What is this really about? If there are those who have been malnourished or mistreated or who…
HIV patients accuse city of violating privacy by giving out personal data without notice
Some privacy breaches are not data security breaches. And some privacy breaches may not be privacy breaches, although to make that determination, we will need to wade into the exemptions under HIPAA and the privacy policies and consent forms patient sign. But even if the incident described below turns out not to be a privacy…
Digital Health Checkup: Key Questions to Consider in the Digital Health Sector
Covington & Burling Inside Privacy writes: Covington’s global cross-practice Digital Health team has posted an illuminating three-part series on the Covington Digital Health blog that covers key questions entities should be asking as they seek to fit together the regulatory and commercial pieces of the complex digital health puzzle. In the first part of the series, the…