Jill McKeon reports: US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Mazie Hirono (D-HI) introduced the Upholding Protections for Health and Online Location Data (UPHOLD) Privacy Act, aimed at preventing the use of health data for advertising purposes. If passed, the UPHOLD Privacy Act would prohibit the use of “personally identifiable health data collected [Read More…]
Carter Sherman reports: It took Amanda Zurawski and her husband more than a year to get pregnant. But, within a week, Zurawski lost her pregnancy, may have lost her chance at ever becoming pregnant again, and nearly lost her life—thanks to Texas’ numerous abortion bans, she says. […] “Doctors and [Read More…]
Larry Celona, Bernadette Hogan, and Bruce Golding report: New York court workers must be rehired — and given back pay with interest — if they were fired because they refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine, the state’s Public Employment Relations Board has ruled. Under terms of the decision issued last month, the Unified Court [Read More…]
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert reports: As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication – and online platforms like Google and Facebook are helping. This spring, a woman named Jessica Burgess and her daughter [Read More…]