Privacy & New Media

The Food and Drug Administration has approved production of a pill containing a sensor that will let doctors know when a patient takes the drug.

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The social network is using artificial intelligence to respond more quickly to reports of potential suicides.

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Apple’s launching its very own medical research study, in conjunction with Stanford Medicine, signaling an ever deeper push into the health-care world

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The work is particularly sensitive because it involves changes to the germ line, genes that could be passed on to future generations.

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The Department of Health and Human Services, along with fifteen other federal agencies, released a final revision for the Common Rule which establishes privacy rights for personal information collected from human subjects in federally funded research. EPIC submitted extensive comments, urging the agencies to adopt strong privacy protections for personal data for the revised Common Rule. However, the federal agency deferred new safegaurds, as well as privacy guidance for internal review boards, claiming that current privacy laws were adequate.

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