June 20 – The Federal Trade Commission today announced that the agency will hold a series of public hearings on whether broad-based changes in the economy, evolving business practices, new technologies, or international developments might require adjustments to competition and consumer protection enforcement law, enforcement priorities, and policy. The multi-day, multi-part hearings, which will take…
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New from HHS OCR: Guidance on HIPAA and Individual Authorization of Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information for Research
From OCR: OCR has issued new guidance on HIPAA and individual authorization of uses and disclosures of protected health information (PHI) for research. This guidance explains certain requirements for an authorization to use or disclose PHI for future research. The guidance also clarifies aspects of the individual’s right to revoke an authorization for research uses…
Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy?
Louis Menand has a review of Sarah Igo’s book, ““The Known Citizen” (Harvard) in an upcoming issue of The New Yorker. The review is replete with examples from the book and from the history of our society, including important Supreme Court decisions. On some level, it’s a history of how we may have wound up…
The secretive Google subsidiary with access to Ancestry’s DNA database
Stuart Leavenworth reports: For DNA testing companies, the genetic code that customers pay to have analysed is a gift that keeps on giving. Not only do these companies profit from DNA analysis, but they stand to make money for decades more marketing people’s data to the highest bidders. Ancestry, which controls a database of more…