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[…] federal agency), to state law enforcement (such as Attorneys General), to various kinds of private rights of action (by which individuals can challenge violations in court). A number of Senate and House Democrats and privacy advocates are proponents of a federal private right of action (usually in addition to federal agency enforcement). Many privacy […]

[…] measurement to mobile apps upon request. The graphic describes the different entities that are able to access, use, or share various types of location data, including cell phone carriers, mobile apps and app partners, and downstream recipients. Finally, the graphic describes the factors that make location data more or less risky including persistence and […]

[…] revealing of individual behavior when it is more frequently collected and for longer amounts of time. As a result, using a persistent identifier (such as an IMEI Number or Advertising ID) usually creates more risk than using a random or rotating identifier. Redacting home and work locations. Known locations that are tied to an […]

[…] turn to what Apple and Google should be doing to support local health departments. First, let’s note that Apple and Google haven’t invented the idea of using a phone for exposure notification or contact tracing during this pandemic. Health departments in countries that moved quickly to respond to the outbreak quickly commissioned apps that used the […]

[…] 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 […]