CAMDEN, N.J. – A former physician with medical practices in New Jersey, New York, and Florida admitted wrongfully disclosing patients’ protected personal health information, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced today. Frank Alario, 65, of Delray Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty before Judge Robert B. Kugler to conspiring to wrongfully disclose patients’ individually identifiable…
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Whatever Happened to Those Self-Service Passport Kiosks at Airports?
The kiosks have been phased out because they didn’t verify faces. The mobile passport system will stick around, but allocating resources to it temporarily became less of a priority in some airports amid this massive — and divisive — overhaul of the agency’s approach to processing travelers. Read more at The New York Times. h/t,…
Cleveland Has Spent Millions on Police Surveillance Cameras. Why Are the Locations a Secret?
Rachel Dissell and Mark Puente report: Cleveland has spent at least $7 million to dot the city with about 1,500 surveillance cameras since 2007. It’s poised to invest nearly $4.7 million for 300 more and fix or replace nearly 40 that are old or damaged. Unlike some other cities, Cleveland officials have refused to share…
Florida Schools Collected Student-Athletes’ Menstrual Data — & It’s Raising Post-Roe Privacy Concerns
Katherine Speller writes: A student-athlete physical evaluation containing student’s reproductive health data drew criticism from parents and advocates earlier this week when it became clear that the software used to collect the information was not one guaranteed to protect student privacy — particularly in the aftermath of Roe v Wade being overturned. The physical evaluation form…