Joe Kelly reports: The Seventh Circuit on Friday weighed the intrusiveness of a Wisconsin statute that institutes lifetime GPS monitoring of certain convicted sex offenders against the necessity of preventing further offenses from that particular class of criminals. The underlying suit was first filed as a federal class action by eight registered sex offenders in…
Category: Laws
Republicans Introduce Privacy Bill That Would Override State Laws
Wendy Davis reports: Four Republican senators have introduced a privacy bill that would override state privacy laws, other than ones requiring notifications of data breaches. “The Setting an American Framework to Ensure Data Access, Transparency, and Accountability Act” (SAFE DATA Act), introduced by Sens. Roger Wicker (Mississippi), John Thune (South Dakota), Marsha Blackburn (Tennessee), and Deb Fischer (Nebraska), would also require companies…
DHS lies again about REAL-ID
Ed Hasbrouck writes: As it’s been doing for years, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is still lying about the state of compliance by states with the Federal REAL-ID Act of 2005. The DHS claims that “All U.S. States [Are] Now Compliant” with the REAL-ID Act. But as we’ve noted many times before, the REAL-ID Act explicitly and unambiguously requires that…
COVID-19 and HIPAA: HHS’s Troubled Approach to Waiving Privacy and Security Rules for the Pandemic
A snippet from the Executive Summary of a new report written by Robert Gellman and Pam Dixon: This report offers an analysis of existing laws and practices regarding both types of HIPAA COVID-19 waivers. The report recommends that, when the current emergency subsides, the Secretary of HHS review in a systematic way the privacy, security,…