Samantha Cole reports: When retired web developer Catherine Kunicki tried to sign up for her first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in downtown Brooklyn, the AdvantageCare Physicians website rejected her. She received an error message that her identity couldn’t be verified through Experian, a credit monitoring company. She said she’s [Read More…]
Brielle Morgan reports: Families who were subjected to birth alerts deserve to know their personal information was shared between social workers and health care workers without their consent, says Cheryl Casimer. “First and foremost, those families need to be notified. And I think that there needs to be an apology [Read More…]
Some research may put you — or others — at risk. At risk of violations of law, but also at risk of violations of people’s privacy or causing harm to them (regardless of whether you are right or wrong in any attributions). Tanya Basu writes: As rioters stormed Capitol Hill [Read More…]
Joseph Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: Dubbed the “Biometric Privacy Act,” New York Assembly Bill 27 (“BPA”) is virtually identical to the Biometric Information Privacy Act in Illinois, 740 ILCS 14 et seq. (BIPA). Enacted in 2008, BIPA only recently triggered thousands of class actions in Illinois. If the BPA is enacted in New York, [Read More…]