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…
Category: Healthcare
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…
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…