HARRISBURG – Acting Attorney General Michelle A. Henry today announced a settlement with DNA Diagnostics Center – one of the world’s largest private DNA-testing companies offering diagnostic and genetic testing to help answer relationship, fertility, and health questions – after a data breach exposed the social security numbers of 12,663 Pennsylvanians who were subject to genetic testing…
Category: Healthcare
Ron DeSantis requested the medical records of trans students who sought care at Florida’s public universities. Now students are planning a statewide walkout.
Just when you think Governor DeSantis can’t get any more despicable, he does. Annalise Mabe reports: Students across Florida are planning a statewide walkout after Gov. Ron DeSantis requested all public universities comply in delivering data from student health services on transgender students who sought gender-affirming care at the institutions. DeSantis asked to see the records of any student who has experienced gender dysphoria in…
Biden Team Mulls Using Privacy Rule Amid State Abortion Bans
Ian Lopez reports: The Biden administration is working on a proposal to better protect the privacy of patients seeking reproductive health care, a move that follows concerns from providers struggling to offer services amid state abortion restrictions. The Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (RIN 0945-AA20) by the…
A researcher tried to buy mental health data. It was surprisingly easy.
Kevin Collier reports: A Duke University report found 11 data brokers agreed to sell information that identified people by issues, including depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder and often sorted them by demographic information. There is nothing new or particularly newsworthy in the findings. This has been going on forever. PogoWasRight’s early blog on a different…