The New York Health Information Privacy Act (NYHIPA), passed by the New York State Legislature on January 22 as Senate Bill S929, is a comprehensive health data ...

Three congressmen on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to the genetic testing company 23andMe on ...

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But critics such as privacy groups, public employee unions and immigrant rights associations who have sued to block the group’s data access warn that so much accumulated information could be ...

One obvious reason: privacy. Certain kinds of information, like medical files and tax returns, are justifiably regarded as sacrosanct—too private to merge with other records. The law provides ...

Protecting your privacy just got easier with Google's enhanced "Results about you" tool. The system proactively scans for ...

A woman in Nova Scotia says people should not assume their health records are safe from snooping, something she discovered ...

Nova Scotia’s new information and privacy commissioner is a lawyer who has worked in private practice and for the Nova Scotia and Northwest Territories governments.

Ascension reveals a security breach affecting patient information in multiple states including Indiana. Offers two years of complimentary credit monitoring and identity protection.

It remains unclear when a government-ordered review of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act will be complete and what will come of it. Earlier ...