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While HIPAA imposes some controls on the collection and distribution of protected health information by covered entities, it leaves a vast ocean of health data unprotected.
Biden’s recent executive order may transform how privacy complaints are resolved within the context of U.S. intelligence activities abroad by providing access to an adjudicative system globally.
For the first time, major world democracies have gone public with a set of common protections that they apply when accessing individuals’ personal data for intelligence or law enforcement purposes.
The consent decree with Macromark enabled greater oversight over data brokers collecting sensitive personal information on defrauded elders.
The Justice Department should issue guidance to clarify the line between covering up a data breach and merely declining to disclose it.
In 2015, a data broker helped anti-abortion groups target women in clinic waiting rooms. The Massachusetts attorney general decided to act.
Cryptocurrency security really is worse than other digital technologies, and there’s a good chance it always will be.
Three data brokers knowingly sold Americans’ data to scammers—and the Department of Justice charged them.
The internet is global, but the laws that govern it are not; designing digital platform regulations around shared modules can help relieve this tension.
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act would provide numerous substantive privacy protections that are long overdue.