David T.S. Fraser writes: The Ontario Small Claims Court, in Halley v McCann, 2016 CanLII 58945 (ON SCSM), has recently awarded a plaintiff $9,000 in damages for breach of privacy. The case arose because the defendant disclosed the fact that the plaintiff had admitted herself to a mental health facility. The defendant is also the half-sister…
Category: Healthcare
FR: New rules for processing patient health data
DLA Piper writes: France’s Law for the Modernization of the Health System, adopted earlier this year, applies to all processing of health data for the purpose of evaluating or analyzing medical treatments and preventive actions. The Law amends the Data Protection Law of 1978, creating a new framework for obtaining authorization to process health data,…
DEA wants to block ACLU of Utah from prescription drug database suit
Lindsay Whitehurst reports: The Drug Enforcement Administration wants to block the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah from stepping into a court case over whether investigators can do warrantless searches of a database of all prescription drug records in the state. More than 40 states keep similar databases, but Utah recently passed a law requiring…
VIPs and Presidential Candidates’ Medical Records Face Heightened Privacy Vulnerabilities
From a new blog post from Protenus: This fall, the VIPs facing the highest levels of media scrutiny are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The candidates and their surrogates badger each other to release their most recent healthcare records, and so do voters, pundits and medical professionals. Clinton and Trump are the oldest major-party presidential nominees in history and…