Daisuke Wakabayashi reports: When the University of Chicago Medical Center announced a partnership to share patient data with Google in 2017, the alliance was promoted as a way to unlock information trapped in electronic health records and improve predictive analysis in medicine. On Wednesday, the University of Chicago, the medical [Read More…]
Mark Young and Sam Jungyun Choi of Covington & Burling write: On June 20, 2019, Keith Krach was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the Trump administration’s first permanent Privacy Shield Ombudsperson at the State Department. The role of the Privacy Shield Ombudsperson is to act as an additional [Read More…]
RFI reports: A French consumer group said Wednesday it is suing tech company Google for illegally farming personal data in breach of EU data privacy laws. The class action suit was filed to “end the insidious exploitation of users’ personal data, particularly those using Android devices with a Google account, [Read More…]
By Jack Gillum and Jeff Kao of NPR. Co-published with Wired. They recommend using headphones while reading this article: Ariella Russcol specializes in drama at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens, New York, and the senior’s performance on this April afternoon didn’t disappoint. While the library is [Read More…]