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Biden administration updates HIPAA to protect abortion and pregnancy records

The Biden administration affirmed the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Heath Care Privacy. This rule supports women’s privacy by barring doctors and health plans from having to disclose health information about abortions to state officials. The objective is to ensure that information about “legal reproductive care” remains confidential and can’t be collected by state officials for criminal investigation and other use.

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Kaiser-Permanente notified 13.4M customers of data violation

April 30, 2024

A breach at health care company, Kaiser Permanente exposed the data of ~13.4 million past and present customers who are now being notified by the company of the event. The company clarified the information was shared with other organizations inadvertently, rather than having been hacked or sold, and the company is both investigating the data situation and looking at how to guard against future problems.

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Landmark ‘Fair Use’ Ruling in Thompson Reuters AI Copyright Case

February 13, 2025

A district judge has ruled that, as a matter of law, Ross Intelligence’s use of Thompson Reuters’ Westlaw content to train its own legal research model is not “fair use” but copyright infringement. This is a revision of a 2023 ruling and leaves issues for a jury to decide. It might, however, shut down one line of defense when it comes to AI scraping of copyright material.

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