Planned Parenthood’s web site had contained advertising and marketing trackers, however the group will take away them over considerations that customers’ well being knowledge may very well be compromised. Period monitoring app Flo can also be making ready an nameless mode to raised cowl person privateness. The Health and Human Services Department individually clarified how HIPAA ought to and should not play into affected person knowledge disclosures to legislation enforcement.
The Washington Post:
Planned Parenthood Suspends Marketing Trackers On Abortion Search Pages
Planned Parenthood stated it’ll take away the advertising and marketing trackers on its search pages associated to abortions and that no protected well being data has been breached up to now. The feedback got here after The Washington Post reported Wednesday findings from Lockdown Privacy, the maker of an app that blocks on-line trackers, displaying that when guests used the web site’s search perform to seek out an abortion supplier and start to schedule an appointment, Planned Parenthood shared knowledge on these actions with third-party monitoring corporations together with Google, Facebook and TikTookay. (Hunger, 6/30)
NPR:
Period Tracker App Flo Developing ‘Anonymous Mode’ To Quell Post-Roe Privacy Concerns
“Flo will all the time get up for the well being of ladies, and this contains offering our customers with full management over their knowledge,” stated Susanne Schumacher, the information safety officer for Flo, stated in a launch despatched to NPR. “Flo won’t ever share or promote person knowledge, and solely collects knowledge when we’ve got a authorized foundation to take action and when our customers have given their knowledgeable consent. Any knowledge we do accumulate is totally encrypted, and this may by no means change.” (Kilpatrick, 6/30)
Modern Healthcare:
HHS Issues HIPAA Guidance After Abortion Ruling
Providers should not cite the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act as a purpose to reveal a affected person’s abortion plan to legislation enforcement, the Health and Human Services Department stated Wednesday. Under HIPAA, healthcare suppliers are allowed to reveal—together with to legislation enforcement— a affected person’s medical data in the event that they consider it is wanted to forestall or reduce a “critical and imminent risk” to well being or security. (Kim Cohen, 6/30)
NBC News:
Post-Roe, ‘Camping’ Has Become Code For Abortions. Activists Say It May Put People At Risk
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, social media has been flooded by posts from individuals providing to take individuals “tenting” — coded language for helping individuals looking for abortions out of state. … A code isn’t a code “if you tell everybody what the code is,” said Kari Nixon, an assistant professor of English at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, who studies medical humanities. “There seems to be this sense of not taking this truly seriously enough.” (Sung and Goggin, 6/30)
Stat:
Abortion Decision Sparks Health Tech’s Cambridge Analytica Moment
In 2018, the tech business discovered itself in a harsh highlight amid a scandal involving an organization known as Cambridge Analytica, which had collected and used the information of thousands and thousands of Facebook customers, seemingly with out their consent. It prompted a public outcry, congressional hearings, a $5 billion effective, and completely altered the discourse round how social media companies use knowledge. In the wake of a Supreme Court determination overturning Roe v. Wade, well being knowledge privateness is getting its personal Cambridge Analytica second. (Aguilar, 6/30)
In associated information from Washington state —
CNN:
Washington State Police Will Not Comply With Out-Of-State Agency Requests For Abortion-Related Information, Governor Says
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee issued a directive Thursday that bars state police from cooperating with out-of-state investigatory requests associated to abortion in his efforts to make the state a “sanctuary” for these looking for the providers. (Sarisohn, 7/1)
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