I was lucky enough to participate in an excellent panel of healthcare professionals discussing how COVID-19 has impacted medical technology, methods of treatment and research, and patient privacy rights. If you are concerned with contract tracing applications, or what governments, employers, or private companies may be doing with data from contact tracing applications, we also had a terrific discussion on those topics.
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Australia Tightens Privacy Protections on COVID-19 Tracing App
New legislation imposes stronger privacy protections on Australia’s planned contact-tracing app.
“The Australian government’s coronavirus tracing app will have stronger privacy protections under legislation which has passed Parliament,” reports The
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Senate, House Democrats Introduce Coronavirus Containment Corps Legislation
Following Democratic and Republican federal Coronavirus data privacy bills, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, along with U.S. Rep. Andy Levin, and U.S. Sens. Jeff Merkley and Tina Smith, introduced a bill for
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Israel: Government Contact Tracing and the Right to Privacy
Dan Or-Hof and Rotem Perelman-Farhi analyzed the Israeli Supreme Court decision on COVID-19 related phone tracing by the Israeli Secret Service in an article for the International Association of Privacy
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Convention 108 and Council of Europe Issue Joint Contact Tracing Statement
Alessandra Pierucci, Chair of the Committee of Convention 108 and Jean-Philippe Walter, Data Protection Commissioner of the Council of Europe, issued a Joint Statement on Digital Contact Tracing.
Key principles
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Pew Research Study Reveals Skepticism for Contact Tracing Apps Among Americans
According to a new Pew Research survey:
- Six in ten Americans say that if the government tracked people’s locations through their mobile phones, it wouldn’t make much of a difference
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Italy Offers Guidance on COVID-19 Contract Tracing Privacy
Italy’s data protection agency, Italian Garante, has offered its opinion on a regulatory proposal for the creation of a COVID-19 tracing app.
The proposed contact tracing system does not appear
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Survey: Many Americans Skeptical About COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps
“Even faced with a major global health threat, most people in America would oppose intrusive technological measures such as tracking apps to contain the spread of the virus,” shows a
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