Healthcare providers and medical information websites have been criticised by the consumer watchdog for routinely breaching the privacy of people using their services online. The Consumentenbond said the sites were placing cookies on their web pages that allowed third-party sites, such as Google, to track people’s internet use without their consent. Some sites failed to carry…
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Ca: Watchdog says eHealth breached privacy by sharing personal information with Elections Sask.
CBC News reports: Elections Saskatchewan should not have received personal health information about residents as part of a data-sharing agreement with eHealth, according to a report by the provincial privacy watchdog. In a report released on June 23, Saskatchewan information and privacy commissioner Ron Kruzeniski says eHealth had no legislative authority to share the information. Read more on CBC…
Royal Free – Google DeepMind trial failed to comply with data protection law
From the Information Commissioner’s Office: The ICO has ruled the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust failed to comply with the Data Protection Act when it provided patient details to Google DeepMind. The Trust provided personal data of around 1.6 million patients as part of a trial to test an alert, diagnosis and detection system for…
Judge Blocks Indiana Parental-Consent Abortion Law
Emily Zantow reports: A federal judge in Indiana issued a preliminary injunction against a new state law that would allow judges to alert the parents of minors seeking an abortion, even if the minor has been deemed mature enough by a court to make her own choice. Under current Indiana law, minors are required to…