The data privacy and security landscape is changing drastically due to new laws regulations, the COVID-19 pandemic, other emerging trends. This article looks at current state of these issues.

The case Tucson Woman's Clinic v. Eden (2004) established that some of Arizona's abortion [3] clinic laws violated physicians' and patients' rights to privacy, and it required Arizona's abortion [3] laws to be rewritten. The laws required most abortion [3] providers to be licensed with the Arizona Department of Health Services and to submit to all the regulations the Department established for ...

The public constitutes a major stakeholder in the debate about, and resolution of privacy and ethical issues in Big Data research about human affairs. Thus, scientists must learn to take public concerns about Big Data research seriously and how to communicate messages designed to build trust in specific big data projects and the institution of science in general. This chapter explores the impli...

Recent developments in information technology have enabled collection and processing of vast amounts of personal data, such as criminal records, shopping habits, credit and medical history, and driving records. This information is undoubtedly very useful in many areas, including medical research, law enforcement and national security. However, there is an increasing public concern about the ind...

Advertisers use online customer data to target their marketing appeals. This has heightened consumers’ privacy concerns, leading governments to pass laws designed to protect consumer privacy by restricting the use of data and by restricting online tracking techniques used by websites. We use the responses of 3.3 million survey-takers who had been randomly exposed to 9,596 online display (banner...

Many organizations transact in large amounts of data often containing personal identifiable information (PII) and various confidential data. Such organizations are bound by state, federal, and international laws to ensure that the confidentiality of both individuals and sensitive data is not compromised. However, during the privacy preserving process, the utility of such datasets diminishes eve...

It is common practice for enterprises and other organisations to ask people to disclose their personal data in order to grant them access to services and engage in transactions. This practice is not going to disappear, at least in the foreseeable future. Most enterprises need personal information to run their businesses and provide the required services, many of whom have turned to identity man...

The primary responsibility of the Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) is to protect online consumer privacy by developing an organization’s privacy policy and ensuring compliance with privacy laws and regulations. However, the explosive growth of internet use for business has brought about an escalation of concerns including reduced consumer confidence in internet-related business activities, risk of f...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether laws and regulations in Botswana, South Africa and Zambia - three countries with a high tuberculosis and HIV infection burden - address elements of the World Health Organization (WHO) policy on tuberculosis infection control. METHODS An online desk review of laws and regulations that address six selected elements of the WHO policy on tuberculosis infection contr...