Jason Stein reports: The public would have greater access to records on the doctors, pharmacists and psychologists licensed by the state to care for them, under a bill before the Legislature. From nurses to social workers, the state Department of Regulation and Licensing doesn’t routinely do criminal background checks when it licenses most state professionals….
Category: Laws
UK: E-commerce Regulations updated to exempt ISPs from hate speech charges
The Government has published Regulations that will absolve internet service providers (ISPs) and other digital service providers of responsibility for religion or sexuality-related hate speech transmitted over their networks. The E-Commerce Directive protects service providers from liability for material that they neither create nor monitor but simply store or pass on to users of their…
Consumer protection agencies need privacy definitions (commentary)
Ari Schwartz of CDT writes: Internet privacy continues to be a major concern among Americans. In a recent study, the Annenberg School found that 69 percent of American adults feel there should be a law that gives people the right to know everything that a website knows about them; 92 percent of those surveyed believe…
New Chinese Tort Liability Law Contains Provisions Affecting Personal Data
Hunton & Williams provide more details on the newly passed Chinese tort law: Certain of its provisions relate, expressly or in a general sense, to personal information. These provisions can cause data users to incur liability to data subjects for the mishandling of personal information. In particular: The law (at Articles 2 and 6) states…