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…
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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…
CA: Court case puts patient privacy in peril
Troy Parks writes: What happens to physician-patient confidentiality when any government agency can obtain a patient’s prescription records without a warrant? A case before a state supreme court threatens to keep these indiscriminant lines of investigation wide open. Lewis v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County, a case before the Supreme Court of the State…
E-health opt-out records a ‘huge invasion of privacy’
Corinne Reichert reports: The Australian Privacy Foundation has accused the Senate of being “dangerously naive” in thinking that opt-out e-health records could be secured against breaches of privacy. Bernard Robertson-Dunn, a member of the Privacy Foundation who has also constructed IT systems for several government departments, said it is “patently absurd” for the Senate inquiry…