Steven Allen Adams reports: Lawmakers are wanting to add West Virginia to the more than a dozen states that protect the privacy of digital information for citizens. Members of the Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary received a briefing Tuesday morning on legislation set to be introduced during the Legislature’s 2024 regular session in January…
Category: Laws
Five Big Questions (And Zero Predictions) for the U.S. State Privacy Landscape In 2024
From The Future of Privacy Forum: Entering 2024, the United States now stands alone as the sole G20 nation without a comprehensive, national framework governing the collection and use of personal data. With bipartisan efforts to enact federal privacy legislation once again languishing in Congress, state-level activity on privacy dramatically accelerated in 2023. As the…
Texas Supreme Court temporarily blocks woman from emergency abortion
Sickening. Disgusting. Infuriating. PogoWasRight can’t even find the right words to express how despicable this situation is. No woman should have to go to court to get permission to get healthcare that she and her doctor believe is necessary. No woman should have to risk being left infertile because some people she doesn’t even know…
German Data Protection Authorities Publish Paper on Cloud-Based Digital Health Applications
Lars Lensdorf, Dr. Dr. Adem Koyuncu, and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington and Burling write: Digital health apps are increasingly used in practice. They raise various questions under regulatory and data protection and data security laws. On November 6, 2023, the German Conference of the Independent Data Protection Supervisory Authorities (Datenschutzkonferenz, DSK), a national body…