Steve Korris reports: Registration of immunizations in Illinois would change from voluntary to mandatory under a bill Rep. Bob Morgan (D-Highwood) introduced last week. Critics of HB 4244 include more than 10,000 citizens who have filed opposition slips describing the measure as “asinine,” and “unconstitutional.” Many say they are “disgusted” that lawmakers are even considering…
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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access
Brian Krebs reports: If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me, an online identity verification service that…
Help Us Investigate the Ed Tech Industry
Help Us Investigate the Ed Tech Industry There’s a booming business in classroom software—and in some cases, the data on students that it produces By: Todd Feathers The educational technology industry is booming. Software is becoming a ubiquitous part of the classroom experience, and as it does, the companies selling these programs to schools are…
California and Florida contribute to web of state genetic privacy protections
Melissa Bianchi, Scott Loughlin, Melissa Levine, and Fleur Oke of Hogan Lovells write: California’s Genetic Information Privacy Act (“GIPA”), which came into effect on January 1, 2022, imposes obligations on direct-to-consumer (“DTC”) genetic testing companies and others that collect and process genetic information. These new obligations, combined with the many differing obligations in other states,…