Edward Ongweso Jr. reports: On Friday, digital rights group Fight for the Future unveiled an open letter signed by 2,000 parents calling on McGraw-Hill Publishing to end its relationship with Proctorio, one of many proctoring apps that offers services that digital rights groups have called “indistinguishable from spyware.” Proctorio has managed to quickly get itself a terrible, horrible,…
Category: U.S.
The New HIPAA NPRM—The Latest and Greatest in the Evolution of the HIPAA Privacy Rule
Kirk J. Nahra of WilmerHale writes: Following a pattern of familiarity for health lawyers, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a substantial Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in December at the end of an administration.[1] The NPRM is intended to revise the Privacy Rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability…
FTC Issues Orders to Nine Social Media and Video Streaming Service Companies Regarding Privacy Practices
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On December 14, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it had issued orders to nine social media and video streaming companies, requesting information on how the companies collect, use and present personal information, their advertising and user engagement practices and how their practices affect children and teens. The orders will assist the…
Vaccine Passports: A Stamp of Inequity
Alexis Hancock and Hayley Tsukayama write: A COVID vaccine has been approved and vaccinations have begun. With them have come proposals of ways to prove you have been vaccinated, based on the presumption that vaccination renders a person immune and unable to spread the virus. The latter is unclear. It also raises digital rights concerns, particularly if…