Nate Raymond reports: A federal judge in Texas late Tuesday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing in the Republican-led state new guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions to women regardless of state bans on the procedure. U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix in Lubbock agreed with Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that the…
Category: Healthcare
WA Health sorry over monkeypox data breach
Michael Ramsey reports: Western Australia’s health department has apologised for accidentally leaking the personal details of passengers aboard a flight carrying a person infected with monkeypox. A woman who travelled on the flight from Doha last week said she received the document in an email from WA Health. It contained the personal information of 47…
Mozilla finds 18 of 25 popular reproductive health apps leak data
Jessica Lyons Hardcastle reports: It’s official: your period and/or pregnancy tracker will probably share your data with law enforcement. And they might even do it on purpose. Eighteen of 25 reproductive health apps and wearable devices reviewed by Mozilla received a *Privacy Not Included warning label – meaning they have problems when it comes to protecting users’ privacy…
Federal judge declines to revive privacy violation claim over Snapchat photos of accident victim
Patricia Manson reports: A man’s wish to conceal the fact that he lost an arm in a fireworks accident does not transform that fact into protected confidential information, a federal judge held. In a written opinion, U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman of the Northern District of Illinois declined to revive Omero Ortiz’s claims that two…