The Role of Digital Privacy in Ensuring Access to Abortion and Reproductive Health Care in Post-Dobbs America

The Record: Neural data privacy an emerging issue as California signs protections into law

October 3, 2024

Consumer Privacy
Data Protection
Health Privacy
Privacy Laws
U.S. State Privacy Laws
News

The Atlantic: Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe?

September 27, 2024

Consumer Privacy
Data Protection
Health Privacy
News

Fortune: Why Apple’s plan to re-invent the Watch and AirPods as medical tech could backfire

September 9, 2024

Data Protection
Data Security
Health Privacy
News

Vox: Amazon is using my grocery purchases to sell me prescription drugs

August 29, 2024

Consumer Privacy
Data Protection
Health Privacy
U.S. State Privacy Laws
News

Wristwatched: A New Frontier of Health Monitoring in Prisons

August 22, 2024

For over two decades, states have used electronic monitoring, or e-monitoring, to track and limit the movements of individuals on parole or pre-trial through wearable technology.

Data Protection
Face Surveillance & Biometrics
Health Privacy
Surveillance Oversight
Analysis

EPIC Praises CFPB’s Proposal to Ban Medical Debt from Credit Reports

August 13, 2024

In comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, EPIC expressed support for the CFPB’s proposed rules to largely prohibit the inclusion of medical debt information on credit reports. The proposed rules would protect the privacy of consumers’ sensitive medical information and promote fairness and accuracy in credit reporting.

Consumer Privacy
Data Brokers
Data Protection
Health Privacy
Updates

Comments of EPIC to the CFPB On the Prohibition on Creditors and Consumer Reporting Agencies Concerning Medical Information

August 13, 2024

With this comment, we support the CFPB’s proposals and emphasize the Bureau’s legal authority to promulgate the proposed rules.

Consumer Privacy
Data Brokers
Data Protection
Health Privacy
APA Comments

Two Years Post-Dobbs: A Commercial Surveillance Landscape That is Confusing, Complicated, and Harmful to Abortion Seekers

June 25, 2024

Two years ago, the Supreme Court rescinded the constitutional right to an abortion in its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision. Reproductive privacy is an issue that encompasses bodily autonomy, decisional privacy, and—in an increasingly surveilled state in the digital age—data privacy. EPIC works to enshrine and protect a person’s right to choose abortion health care, advocates for limits on harmful consumer profiling that could reveal pregnancy status and other health conditions, and promotes strong data minimization rules that would prevent personal information related to or revealing reproductive health care from being accessed by law enforcement.

Consumer Privacy
Data Brokers
Data Protection
Health Privacy
Analysis

Reader’s Digest: 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You

June 20, 2024

Cybersecurity
Data Protection
Data Security
Health Privacy
News

The Role of Digital Privacy in Ensuring Access to Abortion and Reproductive Health Care in Post-Dobbs America

June 13, 2024

The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022 unleashed a reproductive health crisis in the U.S. The country also faces a data privacy crisis. The two are intrinsically related, increasing the risks that people face to access reproductive health care.

Data Protection
Health Privacy
Analysis

Health Privacy