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[…] response to changing contexts, otherwise known as task switching. In order to ensure that the data sharing project minimized potential privacy risks, both the parties took a number of steps, including:  De-identifying the data according to HIPAA Safe Harbor standards,  Maintaining a high level of information security throughout the project lifecycle, Ensuring alignment and […]

[…] uses of GIS data from multiple sources, such as Esri, HERE, Garmin, and USGS, and county level data, Definitive Healthcare built a mapping tool to identify the number of licensed and staffed hospital beds available. This healthcare data analytics company does not promise to use AI tools, but incorporates many of the sources of […]

[…] is ‘an open protocol for COVID-19 proximity tracing using Bluetooth Low Energy functionality on mobile devices that ensures personal data and computation stays entirely on an individual’s phone’ (a decentralized solution). The protocol is being implemented in a ‘soon-to-be-released, open-sourced app and server’. Its data protection and security claims are scrutinized and open to […]

[…] world are considering whether and how to use mobile location data to help contain the virus: Israel’s government passed emergency regulations to address the crisis using cell phone location data; the European Commission requested that mobile carriers provide anonymized and aggregate mobile location data; and South Korea has created a publicly available map of […]

[…] disclose that information to the people who need to know it without first gaining the student’s or parent’s consent.” Read more. The white paper also addresses a number of frequently asked questions, including: If a student has COVID-19, what information from education records can the school share with the community? If the school suspects […]

[…] less than three cases were brought each year by the Equal Opportunity Employment Coalition (EEOC), the federal agency that enforces Title II of GINA, and a shrinking number of charges citing GINA violations were filed with the EEOC (333 charges filed in 2013 versus 209 cases filed in 2019).  However, GINA has not eliminated […]

[…] the potential fines could be remarkably high — at $7500 per violation (the same as under the CCPA for intentional breaches of the law), multiplied by the number of consumers affected by a violation (easily scalable to large numbers when device data or large platforms are involved), a fine under the WPA could easily […]

[…] and tear, it concerns the driver or passenger of the vehicle. This is because when this data is cross-referenced with other data, such as the vehicle identification number (VIN), it can be linked to an individual. Similarly, vehicle metadata, such as vehicle maintenance status, may also be personal data. Data collected by cameras and […]

[…] important Fourth Amendment opinion in decades. The opinion requires the police to obtain a warrant to access an individual’s historical whereabouts from the records of a cell phone provider. Ohm states that Carpenter represents a new approach to the “reasonable expectation of privacy” test: “Until now, the Supreme Court has tended to pay more […]

[…] with the specified or express purposes for which the data was initially gathered. The obligations imposed by the Act would not restrict processing personal data for a number of specified purposes. Those exemptions include cooperating with law enforcement agencies, performing contracts, providing requested products or services to consumers, processing personal data for research, consumer […]