Joseph J. Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently took enforcement action against digital healthcare companies for sharing user information vie third-party tracking pixels, which enable the collection of user data. At the start of the year, the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights issued its own bulletin with guidance regarding…
Facial recognition is helping Putin curb dissent with the aid of U.S. tech
A Reuters review of more than 2,000 court cases shows how Russia uses facial recognition to identify and sweep up the Kremlin’s opponents. Lena Masri reports: Andrey Chernyshov had just entered a Moscow metro station on his way to an anti-war protest last May, when police officers stopped him, informed him he was on a…
Truly Random Drug Testing: ADHD Patients Face Uneven Urine Screens and, Sometimes, Stigma
by Arielle Zionts March 28, 2023 Some adults who take prescription medication for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder are required to have their urine tested for drugs several times a year. Others never are tested. Such screenings are designed to check if ADHD patients are safely taking their pills, such as Adderall, and not selling them, taking too…
Parents of patients at St. Louis transgender center fear privacy breaches, file complaints
Colleen Schrappen reports: A mother in St. Louis County braced herself last month as she began reading an incriminatory account of the transgender treatment center where her child is a patient. Paragraphs into what the mother calls “wild accusations,” she froze. She was reading about her son. “It literally puts us in the bulls-eye,” the…