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The FTC has announced its agenda for spring 2014. Of particular note for this blog, one of the three privacy items on its agenda is consumer-generated and controlled health data – information provided by consumers to non-HIPAA covered sites, apps, and/or devices: Consumer Generated and Controlled Health Data – Date and location TBD Increasingly, consumers are…

Christopher Cadelago reports: California’s health insurance exchange wants to collect and use data on a raft of sensitive customer information, from race and ethnicity to sexual orientation and gender identity. How officials will tackle the task without running afoul of privacy laws remains an open question. A policy on collecting demographic characteristics – potentially far…

Gary Kean reports the update to the Western Health breach noted previously on this blog: There will not be a speedy disposition of the criminal charge against the former Western Health employee accused of inappropriately accessing medical records on the job. The matter involving Donna Colbourne of Corner Brook was scheduled to be dealt with…

Kate Andries reports: Your phone knows everything about you — how much you walk, talk and what level of Candy Crush you’re stuck on — but soon it could be spilling secrets to your doctor. More and more physicians are prescribing apps that help track their patients’ illnesses through information collected by their smartphones. “[The…

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American site visitors! News updates will resume tonight. For now, I’ve got to get cooking. I wish you all a great day filled with family and friends and laughter.

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American site visitors! News updates will resume tonight. For now, I’ve got to get cooking. I wish you all a great day filled with family and friends and laughter.