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…
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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…
Nursing Home Workers Still Posting Nude and Vulgar Photos of Residents on Snapchat
Nursing Home Workers Still Posting Nude and Vulgar Photos of Residents on Snapchat by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, June 23, 2017, 8 a.m. In the last year alone, employees of at least 18 nursing homes and assisted living facilities have posted unauthorized — and in some cases, vulgar and stomach-turning — photos and videos of residents…
Google Will Now Remove Private Medical Records From Search Results
Mark Bergen reports: Alphabet Inc.’s Google has quietly decided to scrub an entire category of online content — personal medical records — from its search results, a departure from its typically hands-off approach to policing the web. Google lists the information it removes from its search results on its policy page. On Thursday, the website…