Dan Cooper, Helena Milner-Smith, and Jiayen Ong of Covington and Burling write: On October 12, 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) opened a public consultation seeking feedback on the draft guidance document on employment practices, specifically relating to monitoring at work (the “Monitoring at Work Guidance”). The guidance aims to provide practical guidance and…
HHS Proposes New Protections to Increase Care Coordination and Confidentiality for Patients With Substance Use Challenges
From HHS, yesterday: Today, the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, through the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), announced proposed changes to the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Patient Records under 42 CFR part 2 (“Part 2”), which protects patient privacy and records concerning…
A Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet
Mark Harris reports: The FBI’s biggest-ever investigation included the biggest-ever haul of phones from controversial geofence warrants, court records show. A filing in the case of one of the January 6 suspects, David Rhine, shows that Google initially identified 5,723 devices as being in or near the US Capitol during the riot. Only around 900…
Using sensitive data to prevent discrimination by artificial intelligence: Does the GDPR need a new exception?
There’s a new paper by Marvinvan Bekkum and Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius: Using sensitive data to prevent discrimination by artificial intelligence: Does the GDPR need a new exception? Abstract Organisations can use artificial intelligence to make decisions about people for a variety of reasons, for instance, to select the best candidates from many job applications. However,…