In this paper, we consider the costs and benefits of transactions privacy. In the environment we consider, privacy is the concealment of potentially useful information, but concealment also potentially bestows benefits. In some versions of the environment, the standard Coasian logic applies: given an unambiguous initial assignment of rights and sufficient flexibility in contracting, efficiency ...

Though HIPAA addresses privacy and security on a nationwide basis, state laws and regulations vary. This paper describes the landscape for privacy and security in Pennsylvania and its key elements. It addresses common myths and misunderstandings and provides an overview of what is actually required to provide needed protections privacy policies from government and the stakeholders; risk analysi...

The adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a major concern for data controllers of the public and private sector, as they are obliged to conform to the new principles and requirements managing personal data. In this paper, we propose that the data controllers adopt the concept of the Privacy Level Agreement. We present a metamodel for PLAs to support privacy management, ba...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Public Health Laboratories initiated the Laboratory Efficiencies Initiative in 2011 to help address issues related to public health laboratory (PHL) capacity to perform critically needed tests and services. One approach to improving capacity and efficiency is sharing PHL services with other states or jurisdictions. Cross-juri...

Database mining can be defined as the process of mining for implicit, formerly unidentified, and potentially essential information from awfully huge databases by efficient knowledge discovery techniques. The privacy and security of user information have become significant public policy anxieties and these anxieties are receiving increased interest by the both public and government lawmaker and ...

These comments are prepared with the aim of clarifying the contribution, insights, and context of the academic research we have done in the area of digital privacy. We have submitted a similar document in response to the FTC Staff Report on ‘Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: A Proposed Framework for Businesses and Policymakers’. In terms of the specific questions asked in t...

This paper challenges the argument that data protection legislation may harm research by unduly restricting the flow of personal health information. I unpack the assumption that privacy is an individual right that must give way to research as a social good, and explore how data protection laws facilitate the flow of information for research purposes. I conclude that researchers should embrace d...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 574 I. BACKGROUND ..................................................................... 574 A. Regulation of Human Subject Research in the United States ... 575 1. Historical Examples of Abuse ....................................... 575 2. Current Laws ........................................................

This paper discusses the challenges that faced in the “DigNet” age in terms of privacy and proposes a framework for privacy protection. This framework is integral in ensuring that personal data protection is impeded part of business processes of any systems that are involved in collecting, disseminating, and accessing an individual’s data. The cooperation and partnership between nations in pass...

This article surveys current legislation related to genetic privacy and discrimination, including Federal and State laws that prohibit, or could be used to prohibit, genetic discrimination in employment and insurance, and laws that protect genetic privacy. The relationship between protecting genetic privacy and prohibiting genetic discrimination is discussed. In part II of the article, the auth...