Rebecca Robbins reports: Want $50 off your next purchase at Walgreens? You’ll have to run 2,000 miles. Or step on a scale 2,000 times. Or take 2,000 readings of your blood glucose level. And you’ll have to let the global pharmacy chain track all that data — and give them permission to mine it to…
Category: Healthcare
Health data from wearable devices could be restricted under new EU regulation
Rhiannon Williams reports: A law firm has called on EU regulators to rethink the impact of the forthcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on data generated by health trackers and other wearables, including the Apple Watch, Fitbit and Garmin fitness bands. Osborne Clarke claims the new law, set to come in force from 2018, will stifle innovation in the…
Privacy Not Included: Federal Law Lags Behind New Tech
Privacy Not Included: Federal Law Lags Behind New Tech by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Nov. 17, 2015, 10 a.m. This story was co-published with the Washington Post. Jacqueline Stokes spotted the home paternity test at her local drugstore in Florida and knew she had to try it. She had no doubts for her own family, but…
DNA Data From California Newborn Blood Samples Stored, Sold To 3rd Parties
Julie Watts reports: This might come as a surprise to California natives in their 20s and early 30s: The state owns your DNA. Every year about four million newborns in the U.S. get a heel prick at birth, to screen for congenital disorders, that if found early enough, can save their life. Danielle Gatto barely remembers the…