Majority (55.5 percent) were equally worried about the privacy of medical records, DNA data, and facial images collected for precision health research Uses of facial images and facial recognition technologies – to unlock a phone or in airport security – are becoming increasingly common in everyday life. But how do people feel about using such data in healthcare and biomedical research? Through surveying over 4,000 US adults, researchers…
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New resources on privacy harms
Of note: Professors Daniel Solove and Danielle Citron have revised their important article, Privacy Harms, forthcoming 102 B.U. Law Review __ (2022). You can download the latest draft for free on SSRN. “Among other things,” Dan writes, “we rethought the typology to add top-level categories and subcategories.” Other papers on harms that the two have co-authored: Standing…
Privacy news from here and there….
In case you missed it: Ad trackers continue to collect Europeans’ data without consent: https://digiday.com/media/ad-trackers-continue-to-collect-europeans-data-without-consent-under-the-gdpr-say-ad-data-detectives/ Wyoming school put on lockdown after one student refuses to wear face mask, and is arrested: https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/student-arrested-after-standoff-over-laramie-high-school-mask-requirement/article_1540b4b6-bad7-5d19-98d3-5162afce680a.html Idaho Supreme Court: A Police dog’s nose inside a car window before alerting is a search and a Jones trespass https://isc.idaho.gov/opinions/47367.pdf Amazon Is…
Leaked records open a “Pandora” box of financial secrets
AP reports: Hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders and drug dealers have been hiding their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts and other assets for the past quarter-century, according to a review of nearly 12 million files obtained from 14 firms located around the world. The report released Sunday by…