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Medical DNA sequencing leads to lawsuits and legal questions
Jennifer Couzin-Frankel write: As DNA testing gallops ahead, doctors face wrenching questions about legal risks, protecting patients’ privacy, and the quality of the genetic information they’re providing—and they need help. That was one message from a symposium yesterday at the University of Minnesota (UMN) in Minneapolis. Leaders of a $2 million project called LawSeq are…
Our contradictory relationship to data privacy
Adam Kujawa writes that despite the fact that the public has repeatedly been made aware of the misuse of communications data by governments and businesses, we have not changed our ways. Since then, the abuse and misuse of communications data are believed to have been instrumental in affecting the outcome of both the 2016 US…
The Paris District Court Invalidates 38 Clauses of Google+ Terms of Use and Privacy Policy
Catherine Muyl and Marion Cavalier of Foley Hoag write: It has been rough weather for Google in France. Three weeks after the French Data Protection Authority imposed a record fine against Google for non-compliance with the GDPR, the Paris District Court (“Tribunal de Grande Instance”) invalidated 38 clauses of Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of…