Sara Merken reports: An Illinois federal district court dismissed a hospital employee’s claims that Becton, Dickinson and Co. allegedly collected and stored his fingerprint data in violation of a state biometric privacy law. Plaintiff Corey Heard failed to state a claim against the medical device maker under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, the U.S….
Category: Laws
FB, Twitter, Google threaten to shut services in Pak over new internet law
IANS reports: A coalition comprising digital media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter (among others) have spoken out against the new regulations approved by the Pakistani government for social media, threatening to suspend services in the country if the rules were not revised, it was reported. In a letter to Prime Minster Imran Khan earlier this month, the Asia Internet…
Thailand Personal Data Protection Law
Tassanai Kiratisountorn, Pimchanok Eianleng, Anna Gamvros, and Ruby Kwok of Norton Rose Fulbright write: The Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) (PDPA) was published on 27 May 2019 in Thailand’s Government Gazette and became effective the following day. However, most of the operational provisions, including provisions relating to the rights of a data subject,…
School STI Services Raise Complications of HIPAA Confidentiality
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…