Joseph Cox reports: The American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), a new federal privacy bill that has actually a chance of becoming law, is designed to introduce new privacy protections for Americans. But it may also have the side effect of wiping out $200 million worth of fines proposed against some of the country’s biggest telecommunications companies as part…
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Kochava Fights FTC Action Over Health-Site Mobile Data Sales
Andrea Vittorio reports: Mobile advertising firm Kochava Inc. is suing the Federal Trade Commission to challenge an enforcement action brought over its alleged sale of location records that could reveal people’s travel to abortion clinics or other health care facilities. The commission can’t use the FTC Act to go after Kochava for past practices, the…
CIA sued over alleged spying on lawyers, journalists who met Assange
Kanishka Singh reports: A group of journalists and lawyers sued the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in Ecuador’s embassy in London. The lawsuit said that CIA under Pompeo violated the privacy rights of those American…
Hospital and drugmaker move to build a vast database of New Yorkers’ DNA
Joseph Goldstein reports: The Mount Sinai Health System began an effort this week to build a vast database of patient genetic information that can be studied by researchers — and by a large pharmaceutical company. The goal is to search for treatments for illnesses ranging from schizophrenia to kidney disease, but the effort to gather…