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How California Reproductive Health Workers Can Protect …

California has a program that allows reproductive health care workers and patients facing threats to obtain a confidential snail mail address that they can use to … See more

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Big Data Profits If We Deregulate HIPAA

WEBUntreated mental illness costs the nation more than $100 billion annually. Currently, only 2.5 million of the 21.2 million people suffering from mental illness seek …

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Decoding California's New Digital Vaccine Records and Potential …

WEBThis post was updated on 6/29/21 to more accurately describe how New York is running its voluntary vaccine passport program. The State of California recently …

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Individually Identifiable Health Information (IIHI) Electronic

WEBA subset of health information that identifies the individual or can reasonably be used to identify the individual; HIPAA protects individually identifiable health information. …

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Lexicon Electronic Frontier Foundation

WEBThe Affordable Care Act (ACA), which is also known as “Obamacare,”includes Medicare payment incentives to move medical record-keeping in the direction of all electronic …

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Medical Privacy Electronic Frontier Foundation

WEBNote: This is a rapidly shifting legal space. The below page has not been updated since 2015. We are working to update this content, but for now, please be aware that this …

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Privacy First: A Better Way to Address Online Harms

WEBAs described above, it will also do much to address other concerns about internet harms that we all worry about. Specifically, a real privacy law must include the …

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Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health …

WEBThe Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was included in the 2009 stimulus bill known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) …

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Protecting Civil Liberties During a Public Health Crisis

WEBAcross the world, public health authorities are working to contain the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). In pursuit of this urgent and necessary task, …

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The Law and Medical Privacy Electronic Frontier Foundation

WEBCalifornia’s medical privacy laws, primarily the Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), the data breach sections of the Civil Code, and sections of the …

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What Information is "Personally Identifiable"

WEBFederal health privacy regulations use "individually identifiable health information" (about a patient) as a basis for the category called Protected Health …

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How to Protect Privacy When Aggregating Location Data to Fight …

WEBAs governments, the private sector, NGOs, and others mobilize to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen calls to use location information —typically drawn from …

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California Leads on Reproductive and Trans Health Data Privacy

WEBThese three new California laws—A.B. 1242, A.B. 2091, and S.B. 107—are strong protections of reproductive and transgender health data privacy. Other pro …

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Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online …

WEBThe authors of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) unveiled an amended version this week, but it’s still an unconstitutional censorship bill that continues …

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Law Enforcement Access Electronic Frontier Foundation

WEBBoth federal and state laws govern law enforcement access to medical information. The federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) creates the baseline …

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National Security and Medical Information Electronic Frontier …

WEB1 This exception overrides the normal requirement that your authorization is needed before your medical information can be disclosed for anything other than your treatment, bill …

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Location Data Tracks Abortion Clinic Visits. Here’s What to Know

WEBRon Wyden recenty disclosed that vendor Near Intelligence allegedly gathered location data of people’s visits to nearly 600 Planned Parenthood locations …

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The Law Should Not Require Parental Consent for All Minors to …

WEBNumerous state laws passed this year, and bills proposed in Congress, would set onerous new restrictions on what young people can do online, depriving …

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Civil Liberties Groups Demand California Police Stop Sharing …

WEBSAN FRANCISCO—Seventy-one* California police agencies in 22 counties must immediately stop sharing automated license plate reader (ALPR) data with law …

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