Alec Schemmel reports: Australia’s second-most populous state, Victoria, has begun piloting a home quarantine tracking program that randomly calls those quarantining at home and requests a selfie from them within five minutes in order to track their location via GPS. Read more on KATV. h/t, Joe Cadillic, who was probably as apoplectic as I was…
Category: Non-U.S.
Brit law firm files suit against Google and Deepmind over use of hospital patients’ data
Lindsay Clark reports: A UK law firm is bringing legal action on behalf of patients it says had their confidential medical records obtained by Google and DeepMind Technologies in breach of data protection laws. Mishcon de Reya said today it planned a representative action on behalf of Mr Andrew Prismall and the approximately 1.6 million individuals whose…
Saudi Arabia issues Personal Data Protection Law
Abdulaziz Al-Bosaily, Masha Ooijevaar, and Dino Wilkinson of Clyde & Co write: Saudi Arabia has issued its first comprehensive national data protection law to regulate the collection and processing of personal information. In this article we consider the implications of this important development for organisations operating in the Kingdom. What is the new law? The…
We can’t release medical records of ‘missing but found woman’ now – Administrator of Takoradi Hospital
I’m not sure I understand how they could release even the number of visits or approximate dates, but I am not expert on Ghana’s medical privacy laws and exceptions. Modern Ghana reports: The Administrator of the Takoradi Hospital, Rev. Osei Boateng, says the facility is holding in confidence the medical records of Josephine Panyin Mensah,…