Hot Topics: Privacy
by Mack Lipkin MD & Arthur Caplan, Ph.D.
The President’s doctor recently chose to triangulate himself in an ethical/policy crossfire between his patient’s right to privacy, Medicine’s professional standards requiring honesty, and the public’s need to know whether and to what extent the President’s ability to fulfill his essential duties was compromised.…
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by Andrew Helmers, MDCM, MHSc (Bioethics), MSc, FRCPC
The Journal of Vascular Surgery (and Irony) published a rather odd piece that set Twitter ablaze even amidst the wildfire that is COVID-19.…
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Is it unrealistic to believe that phone apps for digital Covid contact tracing can be designed and regulated in ways that prevent the information they collect from being misused? It's worth remembering surveillance of Vietnam War protesters and Martin Luther King Jr.
The post Before We Turn to Digital Contract Tracing for Covid, Remember Surveillance in the Sixties appeared first on The Hastings Center.
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
In a lawsuit this week, a judge in Cook County (IL) ruled against a suburban that wanted to force the county “to share the addresses of coronavirus patients”.…
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by Alex Dubov, Ph.D. and Steven Shoptaw, Ph.D.
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As the world grapples with COVID-19, experts are calling for better identification and isolation of new cases.…
Healthcare and Public Health Johns Hopkins University & Medicine: The Unequal Cost of Social Distancing“Right now, we must recognize that we cannot expect the most marginalized among us to bear the greatest costs of social distancing for weeks or months on end. If we devise policy based on the assumption that families who cannot put […]
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
One of the most powerful tools that epidemiologists have for containing an outbreak is contact tracing—finding out all of the people with whom an infected person has had contact during the period when they were potentially shedding the virus.…
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
This week Las Vegas hosted the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where tech companies can show off the devices they hope we will all be buying soon.…
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D.
Last week, I received an automated phone call from my local grocery chain saying that I had purchased some hardboiled eggs that were part of a recall and I should return the eggs for a full refund.…
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by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. and Keisha Ray, Ph.D.
The end of the year usually brings a media blitz of top ten lists for the year that is ending.…
Full ArticleDuties When an Anonymous Student Health Survey Finds a Hot Spot of Suicidality
Reassessing the Ethics of Molecular HIV Surveillance in the Era of Cluster Detection and Response: Toward HIV Data Justice
Return of Value in the New Era of Biomedical Research—One Size Will Not Fit All
Breaking a Vital Trust: Posting Photos of Patients on Facebook Among a Sample of Peruvian Medical Students
A Content Analysis of Patient Advocacy Organization Policies Addressing Institutional Conflicts of Interest
Ethical and Regulatory Considerations for Using Social Media Platforms to Locate and Track Research Participants
Expanding, Augmenting, and Operationalizing Ethical and Regulatory Considerations for Using Social Media Platforms in Research and Health Care
Cameras on beds: The ethics of surveillance in nursing home rooms
Should Researchers Offer Results to Family Members of Cancer Biobank Participants? A Mixed-Methods Study of Proband and Family Preferences
Recent data has shown COVID-19 numbers are trending in the wrong directions for our populations at risk. With the vaccine soon to be rolled out, what needs to be considered in distribution as we look at the effects of COVID-19 on elderly populations?
Full ArticleAlthough facial recognition software proves to be useful in certain scenarios, what happens if this technology falls into the wrong hands. Researchers must recognize that unethical facial recognition practice is fundamentally dangerous.
Full ArticleWhole-genome sequencing in synthetic biology is advancing, making the possibilities open in new medicines, treating genetic diseases, and sustainable energy. Scientists must keep in mind the ethics of this technology and how it can be misused.
Full Article“Combining DNA samples is the core of forensic genetic genealogy. The process rests on the simple statistical rules of genetics.” With the rise of forensic genetic profiling, ethical concerns include impacts on communities of color and more. Although this genetic profiling has aided in long-abandoned cases, consumers question the privacy and permissions of third-parties.
Full ArticleTug of war between providing information and protecting identities creates a patchwork of reporting that some students say puts their health at risk
Full ArticleSome government agencies that use the software said they were surprised that Google may pick up the locations of certain app users. Others said they had unsuccessfully pushed Google to make a change.
Full ArticleAs the coronavirus spreads across the United States the limited disclosure of data by officials would seem to be a footnote to the suffering and economic disruptions that the disease is causing. But medical experts say that how much the public should know has become a critical question that will help determine how the United States confronts this outbreak and future ones.
Full ArticleThe European Commission is considering a temporary ban on the use of facial recognition technology, according to a draft proposal for regulating artificial intelligence. Creating rules to ensure AI is ‘trustworthy and human’ has been an early flagship policy promise of the new Commission. But the leaked proposal suggests the EU is in fact leaning towards tweaks of existing rules, rather than anything as firm as blanket sectoral requirements or bans.
Full ArticleThe Federal Communications Commission is set to propose about $200 million in fines against four major cellphone carriers for selling customers’ real-time location data, according to three people briefed on the discussions.
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