Objections to the proposed sale of genetic data in the 23andMe bankruptcy case continued piling up in court this week. They came from a range of affected parties, including states and customers of the biotechnology company.
Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced bicameral legislation that would set data-minimization standards for the collection and sharing of personal reproductive and sexual health data.
Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo (R) vetoed Democrats’ genetic privacy bill (AB-589) Monday because he said it “unnecessarily duplicates existing federal requirements and is likely to create greater confusion around the handling of this data.”
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- A majority of telehealth apps may be violating at least one privacy law or rule, the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference heard Tuesday.
While a change in opinion from notice-and-choice data minimization requirements is highlighted by several recent laws, whether there is a true paradigm shift cannot be understood until they go into effect and become enforceable, said the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) in a report Thursday.
The California Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill aimed at protecting reproductive health privacy, including through a private right of action. The bill, which appropriators recently cleared (see 2505230062), now moves to the Senate.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced an $800,000 settlement with BayCare Health System for alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. The Wednesday settlement ends an OCR investigation into whether unauthorized access to an individual's electronic protected health information (ePHI) occurred at the Florida provider.
California appropriators greenlit a plethora of privacy bills at Friday meetings. Assembly and Senate panels ticked through a laundry list of “suspense file” bills, including on age assurance, automated decisions, reproductive health, workplace surveillance and revisions of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). The approved bills could get floor votes next.
While a California bill on AI in the workplace “aims to protect workers, employers have expressed concerns about how it might affect business efficiency and innovation,” JacksonLewis attorneys Joseph Lazzarotti and Sierra Vierra blogged Wednesday.
A Nevada genetic privacy bill responds to the 23andMe bankruptcy and Trump administration misinformation about people with autism, Nevada Assembly Speaker Steve Yeager (D) said Thursday. Yeager urged passage of his AB-589 at a livestreamed Assembly Government Affairs Committee hearing.