In light of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is providing this bulletin to ensure that HIPAA covered entities and their business associates are aware of the ways that patient information may be shared under the HIPAA Privacy Rule in…
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U.K. Police Will Soon be able to Search Through U.S. Data Without Asking a Judge
Joe Mullin of EFF writes: Law enforcement officials in the U.S. and U.K. have negotiated a deal that sells out the privacy rights of the public in both nations. For Americans, it will effectively abrogate Fourth Amendment protections, and subject their data to search and seizure by foreign police. This is all going to start…
It’s Data Privacy Day 2020, and I’m still being sued in India for reporting on privacy concerns
I remember the first Data Privacy Day in 2007. This blog had started in 2006, and I was so excited about Data Privacy Day that I spent time every day searching for relevant events that I could point readers to. I even tried my hand at making a graphic for the day that said, “If…
How the ‘Sharing’ Economy Erodes Both Privacy and Trust
Laurence Scott writes: Our relationship to privacy is inseparable from our idea of trust. If you trust someone, you may be more willing to divulge personal information to them. If you are highly protective of your privacy, you may seem to others to be distrustful. This is a normal social dynamic. But it is being…