On Dec. 26, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his mandate that Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry establish a new set of online rights for citizens. In doing so, Trudeau signaled an intent to overhaul data...
As global debate around privacy continues, companies are wise to adopt best practices
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HHS introduces new rules to give patients more control over their health data
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) introduced two new rules on Monday that are aimed at giving patients more secure access to and control over their health data. The two rules, which HHS Secretary Alex Azar described in a...
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Your personal data is being used to fight COVID-19, but the data market needs transparency
Personal data has become essential both to mitigate COVID-19 and to rescue our slowing economy. For example, Google is using its large trove of personal data to track the effectiveness of social distancing. Firms are also...
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Democrats introduce coronavirus-focused privacy legislation
Democrats in both chambers introduced legislation Thursday aimed at protecting the privacy and security of health data during the coronavirus pandemic.The Public Health Emergency Privacy Act would place strict limits on what and by...
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Digital contact-tracing: The Trojan horse in the battle over data
In mere months coronavirus has changed everything. Authorities across the world are grappling with its implications for public life, scientists are struggling to understand and counter it, and frontline workers are forced to risk their lives in the...
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Who's balancing privacy against public health and everything else?
Concerns over the use of location tracking and contact tracing of infected individuals to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 have once again placed “privacy” at the forefront of public attention. And even though Congress declared privacy to be a...
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Watching the watchers: More accountability needed to ensure responsible COVID-19 tracing tech
As governments and employers around the world embrace new technological tools to aid COVID-19 contact-tracing, Congress should look beyond traditional law enforcement tools to protect citizens’ privacy and civil liberties.If responsible steps...
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Attacks on privacy are attacks on national security
Privacy issues seem, well, private.When we think about the phrase “invasion of privacy,” it’s natural to think first on an individual level — one person invading the privacy of another — a stalker, a blackmailer, even a burglar. And history is full...
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It's time to rethink children's privacy protection
Disney accounted for nearly 40 percent of the U.S. box office in 2019. The world's top-earning YouTube star is an 8-year-old boy who made $26 million in a single year reviewing toys. Video sharing app TikTok has more than 800 million active...
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Digital divides could disconnect the world
A world of seamless information flows, which many forecast a decade or so ago — a world of “information internationalism” — looks less and less likely today. We are moving ever closer to three “data-governance zones” characterized by three often...
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Why census data needs robust confidentiality protections
In the next few days, the Census Bureau will release the first 2020 Census data — the congressional apportionment population counts. The apportionment numbers — required by law — include population counts of each state and the U.S. as a whole....
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More user-friendly, inclusive privacy online requires funded research
Three years ago, in May 2018, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) changed how companies collect and use our personal data. Some may recall this as the day when every website you’ve ever interacted with emailed you about changes...
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How to improve transatlantic relations without caving to Europe on technology and trade
Washington and Brussels later this month will send senior delegations of economic and trade ministers to the first meeting of a new U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council, dubbed the “TTC.” Their goal, as the name suggests, is to foster high...
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A digital divide is threatening the transatlantic economy
In the span of just eight months, the shine has come off President Biden in Europe. Initially thrilled at his election, America’s allies on the continent have been left bruised and disappointed by Biden’s unexpectedly contemptuous diplomatic style....
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Why Congress should pass data privacy legislation in 2022
Data privacy legislation has been on the Congressional to-do list for years, but as more states consider their own comprehensive privacy laws and Europe’s privacy regulation approaches its fifth anniversary, the federal government continues to lag...
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Americans' data should be protected, no matter who holds it
The recent appointment of Alan Davidson to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration with a focus on privacy and Big Tech gives the Biden administration a huge opportunity to put data privacy back where it belongs — in the...
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