Law professor and privacy scholar Daniel Solove writes: I recently wrote a post about my concerns about the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) (updated version after markup is here), a bill making its way through Congress that has progress further than many other attempts at a comprehensive privacy law. Despite grading the law a B+, I was skeptical of…
Category: Laws
Federal Privacy Law Has Momentum, but There’s a Catch
The concerns over a federal privacy law that would pre-empt state laws continue. In addition to Daniel Solove’s thoughtful piece on the issue and EFF’s concerns, Julia Angwin had a conversation with Cameron Kerry. You can read that conversation on The Markup’s Newsletter.
India Delays Introduction of Data Protection Bill Before Parliament
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On July 24, 2022, the Financial Express published an article on Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the Indian Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, noting that the introduction of the Indian Data Protection Bill (the “Bill”) before Parliament will be delayed by a few months. The Bill was expected to be tabled during the…
Public comment period closing soon on West Virginia’s submission manual for All-Payer-Claims Database
PogoWasRight.org received a request from the reader named below to share a call for action in West Virginia concerning the state’s All-Payer-Claims Database: Listen up folks, this is IMPORTANT and yes, there is something YOU CAN DO to help prevent YOUR PRIVATE HEALTH INFORMATION from getting into the hands of a ALL POWERFUL government database….