Andrea Vittorio reports: Mobile advertising firm Kochava Inc. is suing the Federal Trade Commission to challenge an enforcement action brought over its alleged sale of location records that could reveal people’s travel to abortion clinics or other health care facilities. The commission can’t use the FTC Act to go after Kochava for past practices, the…
Category: Healthcare
Hospital and drugmaker move to build a vast database of New Yorkers’ DNA
Joseph Goldstein reports: The Mount Sinai Health System began an effort this week to build a vast database of patient genetic information that can be studied by researchers — and by a large pharmaceutical company. The goal is to search for treatments for illnesses ranging from schizophrenia to kidney disease, but the effort to gather…
Judge Investigates Alex Jones’ Legal Team After Sandy Hook Medical Records Are Leaked
Mary Papenfuss reports: The judge in a Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit against far-right conspiracy podcaster Alex Jones has launched an investigation of his legal team after the medical records of school parents were leaked. Medical and psychiatric records of some parents and relatives of the children killed in the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in…
UK: Former health adviser found guilty of illegally accessing patient records
The Information Commissioner’s Office announced: A former health adviser has been found guilty of accessing medical records of patients without a valid legal reason. Christopher O’Brien, 36, was working at the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust when he unlawfully accessed the records of 14 patients, who were known personally to him, between June and December 2019….