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Sounds like things got a bit testy between accused hacker Jeremy Hammond’s lawyer and the judge at his bail hearing. Adam Klasfeld has the report on Courthouse News.

Samuel Bagenstos writes: Over at his very helpful blog, Paul Mollica has this post on a case the Seventh Circuit decided yesterday on an employer’s ADA obligations to keep employees’ medical information confidential.  An excerpt: While the Americans with Disabilities Act protects medical information about employees disclosed to an employer as a result of “medical examinations…

Ben Sutherly reports: You might not know it when you seek care from some of central Ohio’s hospital systems, but your health information makes you a potential marketing target. OhioHealth and Mount Carmel Health System routinely mine health data from their patients’ records to decide who should receive certain mailings. The approach — sometimes called…

From the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland on November 8: Christopher Andre Devine, age 33; of Salisbury, Maryland, Frederica, Delaware and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to use the personal identifying information of individuals to open bank accounts and fraudulently…

David Kravets reports: The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to review a major genetic-privacy case on whether authorities may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for serious crimes. The case has wide-ranging implications, because at least 21 states and the federal government have regulations requiring suspects to give a DNA sample upon arrest. In all…

David Kravets reports: Supreme Court justices are to meet privately Friday to weigh whether they will hear a major genetic-privacy case testing whether authorities may take DNA samples from anybody arrested for a serious crime. The case has wide-ranging implications, as at least 21 states and the federal government have regulations requiring suspects to give…