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PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Launches New Project to Reimagine Health Privacy and Equity in the Digital Age in with Support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

December 12, 2024
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
Somebody Spilled the Genes: 23andMe’s Downturn Highlights Insufficient Privacy and Data Security Safeguards for Consumer Genetic Data

December 5, 2024

As 23andMe likely heads towards bankruptcy or sale, many consumers are understandably concerned: what will happen to their genetic data?
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Brokers
- Data Minimization
- Data Protection
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
- Analysis
Privacy and the COVID-19 Pandemic

November 21, 2024
- Data Protection
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
LA Times: Are you tracking your health with a device? Here’s what could happen with the data

November 20, 2024
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
- Privacy Laws
- News
Financial Times: Genetic data is worth more than warm spit

November 17, 2024
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
- News
HIPAA Times: Viral warning about period-tracking apps raises privacy concerns

November 13, 2024
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
- News
Massachusetts’ Top Court Rejects Privacy Arguments, Holds that Hospital Website Tracking is Not a Wiretap

November 1, 2024
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
- Online Advertising & Tracking
- Updates
EPIC Testifies in Support of DC Consumer Health Information Privacy Protection Act

October 31, 2024

EPIC Counsel Suzanne Bernstein testified before the DC Council Committee on Health on Oct. 17 in support of Bill 25-0930, the Consumer Health Information Privacy Protection Act (CHIPPA).
- Data Protection
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Updates
EPIC Supplemental Written Testimony to the DC Council Health Committee in support of the Consumer Health Information Privacy Protection Act (CHIPPA)

October 31, 2024

This supplemental written testimony will build on EPIC’s oral testimony during the October 17 hearing by discussing why it is urgent that the Council act now to protect health data privacy, providing an overview of the health data privacy risks that this bill will mitigate, and highlighting some of the most important aspects of CHIPPA.
- Data Protection
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
- Privacy Laws
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Testimony
EPIC Testimony to the DC Council Health Committee in support of the Consumer Health Information Privacy Protection Act (CHIPPA)

October 30, 2024
- Data Protection
- Health and Reproductive Privacy
- Testimony

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