Mary Anne Pazanowski reports: A Texas doctor doesn’t have to comply with a federal privacy rule that protects reproductive health-care information from unauthorized disclosures, a federal judge in the state said. Carmen Purl demonstrated that she’s likely to win on her claim that the US Department of Health and Human Services exceeded its statutory authority…
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EPIC urges Dutch Data Protection Authority to Protect Students and Employees from the Harms of Emotion Recognition
From EPIC.org: On December 17th, EPIC filed comments with the Dutch data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, regarding use of and prohibitions on emotion recognition surveillance. The EU AI Act prohibits the development, deployment, and placement on the EU market of emotion recognition systems intended for use in the workplace and in educational institutions, with limited exceptions where the algorithm…
Google urges federal judge to toss data privacy suit by health care patients
Michael Gennaro reports: Hoping for a dismissal, Google told a federal judge Thursday that it did not deliberately track, collect and monetize private health information from health care websites and that it could not control if a third-party, such as a health care web provider, sent sensitive information to Google despite Google’s warnings. In a…