Grant M. Gallagher reports: Increasing rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have health officials warning of a public health crisis in the United States. There is evidence that some pediatricians are reserved in talking to at-risk teenagers about STIs and testing. Additionally, when adolescents are diagnosed with STIs in the emergency room, research has found that more than 40% do…
Category: Laws
HK: Privacy Update: Hong Kong Government Considering Amendments to the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance
Paolo Sbuttoni, Marcia Lee and Benjamin Lau of Baker McKenzie write that the government is considering changes in the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance (PDPO). They write: The Review Paper does not propose a complete redraft of the PDPO. Instead, it focuses on six key proposals which we summarise in this update: 1. mandatory data breach…
Understanding Canadian cybersecurity law: Privacy and access to information, the Acts (Part 2)
By Melissa Lukings, JD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick (UNB) AND Dr. Arash Habibi Lashkari, Assistant Professor and Research Coordinator, Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity (CIC), University of New Brunswick (UNB) The Privacy Act and the Access to Information Act were both implemented by the Canadian federal government in 1985 and have acted as a starting point for…
A computer science teaching assistant removed from staff following potential FERPA violation
It’s not often I read about someone being fired for a FERPA violation. Then I realized that the news source was a student-run publication. Good for them for covering this topic. Ujwal Srivastava reports: A computer science teaching assistant (TA) was removed from the staff of CS 224N: “Natural Language Processing” after using its course…