From EPIC.org: In comments to the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), EPIC opposed proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule reducing restrictions on disclosing patients’ Protected Health Information (PHI). HHS’s proposed rule would expand the entities that can receive PHI without patient consent, lower the standard for disclosing PHI in the process of care coordination, and…
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State AGs tell Facebook to scrap Instagram for kids plans
Taylor Hatmaker reports: In a new letter, attorneys general representing 44 U.S. states and territories are pressuring Facebook to walk away from new plans to open Instagram to children. The company is working on an age-gated version of Instagram for kids under the age of 13 that would lure in young users who are currently not permitted…
Congress has another chance at privacy legislation. It can’t afford to fail again.
The editorial board of the Washington Post writes: Congress out of excuses for its inability to pass a privacy law years ago. Now, some of its members are promising they’ll finally do their jobs — just give them another year and a half. The quest for federal rules to govern companies that deal in citizens’…
Judge rejects petition to block Cobb schools mask mandate
Kristal Dixon reports: A federal judge dismissed a request from several parents to stop the Cobb County School District from enforcing its mask mandate. U.S. District Court Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr. rejected the plaintiffs’ request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the district’s mask requirement for students and its contract tracing…