Heidi Groover reports: Providence and about a dozen other major health-care systems across the country said Thursday they will join in a venture “unprecedented” in scope to share anonymized patient data in hopes of supporting research and better understanding medical conditions and treatments. The health-care systems will co-own a private Seattle-based startup company called Truveta…
Category: U.S.
1st Circuit Upholds Border Searches of Phones and Laptops
Thomas Harrison reports: Border agents can turn on a U.S. citizen’s laptop, phone or other digital device, scroll through the data and then confiscate it for weeks even if they don’t have any reason to suspect that the owner is guilty of a crime, the First Circuit ruled Wednesday. “Given the volume of travelers passing…
Ancestry says it fought two police requests to search its DNA database
Zack Whittaker reports: Consumer genomics company Ancestry has confirmed it fought two U.S. law enforcement requests to access its DNA database in the past six months, but that neither request resulted in turning over customer or DNA data. The Utah-based company disclosed the two requests in its latest transparency report covering the latter half of 2020. The…
Court Dismisses CCPA Claim Against Google
Rafael Reyneri of Covington & Burling writes: Last week, a federal district court in San Francisco dismissed a claim under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). The plaintiff alleged that Google had collected personal information without complying with the CCPA’s notice and consent requirements. The court held that the CCPA’s private right of action does…