CAMDEN, N.J. – A former physician with medical practices in New Jersey, New York, and Florida admitted wrongfully disclosing patients’ protected personal health information, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced today. Frank Alario, 65, of Delray Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty before Judge Robert B. Kugler to conspiring to wrongfully disclose patients’ individually identifiable…
The Digital Markets Act for Privacy Professionals
Dan Cooper, Anna Oberschelp de Meneses, Paul Maynard, and Diane Valat ofCovington and Burling write: This post is the first of a series of blog posts about the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”), which was adopted on July 18, 2022, and it deals specifically with those provisions of the DMA that are relevant to organizations’ privacy…
Whatever Happened to Those Self-Service Passport Kiosks at Airports?
The kiosks have been phased out because they didn’t verify faces. The mobile passport system will stick around, but allocating resources to it temporarily became less of a priority in some airports amid this massive — and divisive — overhaul of the agency’s approach to processing travelers. Read more at The New York Times. h/t,…
Cleveland Has Spent Millions on Police Surveillance Cameras. Why Are the Locations a Secret?
Rachel Dissell and Mark Puente report: Cleveland has spent at least $7 million to dot the city with about 1,500 surveillance cameras since 2007. It’s poised to invest nearly $4.7 million for 300 more and fix or replace nearly 40 that are old or damaged. Unlike some other cities, Cleveland officials have refused to share…