Dominic Dhil Panakal of Womble Bond Dickinson Parents, students, and educators are navigating a novel educational landscape. Some schools are relying on a virtual model that requires significant technological involvement, others have opened up their facilities for in-school learning, with significant testing and safety precautions, and others have created a fusion of the two. Each…
Month: October 2020
EFF Asks Government To Dump DHS’s Plan To Massively Expand Its Biometric Collections
Tim Cushing writes: The DHS’s hunger for data cannot be satisfied by mandatory facial scanning at airports, cellphone scraping at border checkpoints, or the dozens of government databases crammed full of personal info it has access to. It needs more. So, it’s asking for more. More mandatory collection of biometric info from millions of people, including US citizens. The EFF is asking the…
Coalition of African Nations to Coordinate Data Protection Framework
Michelle Reed of AKIN GUMP writes: A coalition of African nations have developed a data protection framework with the goal of centralizing data protection laws and the digital economy across Africa. Currently, five countries, including Nigeria, are testing the data protection framework, with the intention to make Africa a single market. After the testing is complete,…
HIPAA doesn’t create any reasonable expectation of privacy in blood toxicology for medical treatment: Court
Via FourthAmendment.com: HIPAA doesn’t create a reasonable expectation of privacy in one’s blood sample obtained for medical treatment. HIPAA recognizes criminal process to obtain it. Consuelo v. State, 2020 Tex. App. LEXIS 8460 (Tex. App. – Dallas Oct. 27, 2020).