Douglas Gerhardt, Tracie Lopardi, and Alan Winchester of Harris Beach PLLC write: School districts must consider the sanctity and privacy of data they maintain, as a recent decision underscores from the New York State Education Department’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer. This alert explains the recent decision, a prior guidance opinion and considerations for…
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Privacy Family Safety App Touting Digital Security Leaves Its Own Users’ Sensitive Data at Risk
Family Safety App Touting Digital Security Leaves Its Own Users’ Sensitive Data at Risk Former employees said Life360 executives knew about security gaps By: Alfred Ng and Jon Keegan The family safety app Life360 doesn’t have some standard guardrails to prevent a hacker from taking over an account and accessing sensitive information, The Markup has…
Fifth Circuit opinion in United Airlines vaccine mandate case conjures fiery dissent
If there was a “GOAT” (“greatest of all time”) for blistering court opinion dissents, one in the Fifth Circuit this week would likely win any poll. Daniel Conrad reports: A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ unpublished, per curiam decision rarely stirs the pot. But the Fifth Circuit’s decision Thursday in a lawsuit between United Airlines…
CDC Says 10% Of COVID Swabs Sent to Genome Lab, Raising Privacy Questions
Patricia McKnight reports: If you took a COVID-19 PCR test, there’s a chance your swab may have been sent to scientists around the globe for genomic sequencing analysis, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. In a tweet, the CDC said five to 10 percent of COVID PCR tests are sent to labs for mapping “genomic…