From HHS, clarification during these difficult times: HHS Secretary Waives Certain HIPAA Privacy Rule Provisions for Texas and Louisiana Hospitals; OCR Issues Bulletin for Medical Professionals Navigating HIPAA Rules in Emergency Situations In response to Hurricane Harvey, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., declared a public health emergency in…
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Mobile biometric driver’s licenses coming to a state near you
Joe Cadillic writes: MorphoTrust (MT) is trying to convince motorists that mobile biometric driver’s licenses (MDL) are a good thing. Two years ago MT convinced the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) to pilot their mobile driver’s license program. MT wants you to download an image of your driver’s license to your smartphone and use that…
PSA: HHS establishing medical shelter to aid those affected by Hurricane Harvey
The following is a public service announcement from HHS: Thousands of Texans sheltering at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston will have medical care on-site through a 250-bed Federal Medical Station established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at the request of the State Department of Health. The Federal…
Article: Saving Face: Unfolding the Screen of Chinese Privacy Law
Li, Tiffany and Bronfman, Jill and Zhou, Zhou, Saving Face: Unfolding the Screen of Chinese Privacy Law (August 2017). Journal of Law, Information, and Science (Forthcoming). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2826087 Abstract Privacy is often a subjective value, taking on meaning from specific social, historical, and cultural contexts. Western privacy scholars have so far generally limited…