Lauren Rankin writes: New York had the chance to make history in more arenas than basketball this June. Earlier this month, the New York Senate passed the Maternal Health, Dignity and Consent Act, becoming the first legislative chamber in the country to pass legislation that would require informed consent for drug testing of pregnant people. But despite that...

James Mann and David Saunders of McDermott Will & Schulte write: Readers may recall that last year, New York attempted to enact a health privacy law that was ultimately vetoed by the governor. Now, New York is back with another attempt that, after some modification from last year’s version, stands a chance of being signed by Governor Kathy Hochul. Like...

Russell Myers reports: A hospital worker at the private clinic where the Princess of Wales had abdominal surgery is set to face a criminal prosecution following an investigation into claims that the Princess’ medical records had allegedly been accessed by staff in 2024, it is understood. A total of three trusted employees, who worked at The...

Margaret Attridge reports: The Nevada Supreme Court granted a victory to reproductive health advocates and abortion providers Thursday, blocking enforcement of a 1985 state law restricting abortion for minors. Reversing a lower court’s denial of a preliminary injunction, an en banc panel of justices ruled Nevada Senate Bill 510 — passed in 1985, never enforced and...

Naomi Diaz reports: The American Hospital Association and Illinois Health and Hospital Association are urging the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a lower court ruling in a website-tracking lawsuit against Evanston, Ill.-based Endeavor Health, formerly known as Edward-Elmhurst Health. In a May 27 amicus brief, the hospital groups said they support Endeavor Health and...

Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form they’re signing explicitly says they can opt-out. By: Alex Rosenblat When Paula Stannard, one of the federal government’s top healthcare privacy officials, visited her eye doctor this year, she was asked to sign a form, acknowledging she’d received...

Steve Alder reports: Tempus AI, a publicly traded healthcare artificial intelligence company, is facing multiple class action lawsuits over the alleged unauthorized collection and disclosure of genetic testing results, which were derived from genetic testing by Ambry Genetics Corporation (Ambry Genetics). Tempus AI used Ambry Genetics’ genetic database to train its AI models. Tempus AI...

Margaret Attridge reports: A federal judge Thursday indicated he would grant preliminary approval to a proposed $56 million class action settlement over a lawsuit that accused period tracking app Flo of sharing users’ highly sensitive information with third parties, including Google. “I have to get rid of this thing. No one has gotten paid. This...

There seem to be more news stories about data protection out of Kenya recently. This one appeared on CapitalFM: The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has found St Luke’s Orthopaedic and Trauma Hospital liable for unlawfully disclosing a patient’s sensitive medical information and ordered it to pay Sh525,000 in compensation. In a ruling...

Cyrus Farivar reports: Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week over allegations that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without their consent, in violation of state and federal law. The proposed class-action lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, states that, within the past six months, the plaintiffs received...

The Standard reports: A medical intern at Princess Margaret Hospital has been suspended after allegedly posting photos containing patients’ information on a personal social media account, the Hospital Authority (HA) announced. The incident came to light after a complaint was filed on Friday, prompting the hospital to launch an immediate investigation. A spokesperson for the...

Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild writes: A new federal court decision denied a motion to dismiss in a case alleging Federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) claims arising from the sharing of health information through a website’s online tracking technology. What does this case teach and what should healthcare companies be doing about it? Recap of...

Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On March 25, 2026, New Jersey enacted A4070, which restricts health care facilities’ collection and disclosure of certain patient information, including immigration status, citizenship status, place of birth, Social Security number and individual taxpayer identification number. Under the law, a health care facility may not request or collect the listed information unless...

by Amanda Seitz and Maia Rosenfeld April 8, 2026 The Trump administration is quietly seeking unprecedented access to medical records for millions of federal workers and retirees, and their families. A brief notice from the Office of Personnel Management could dramatically change which personally identifiable medical information the agency obtains, giving it the power to...

Danielle Han reports: Nearly two years after Lizelle Gonzalez filed a civil lawsuit against Texas prosecutors for wrongfully jailing her over a self-managed abortion, a Trump-appointed judge on Tuesday dismissed the case by declaring the officials involved were protected by “qualified immunity.” Ah, yes, because what’s more overrated in a thriving republic than, say, due process? Gonzalez’s case garnered international...

Kelsey Reichmann reports: Ruling against Colorado’s conversion therapy ban, the Supreme Court on Tuesday held that a religious counselor had a First Amendment right to provide faith-based counseling to change sexual behaviors. In an 8-1 ruling, the court said Colorado’s law censored speech based on viewpoint because it prohibited not only long-abandoned aversive physical interventions but also...

Rose Lundy reports: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights announced on March 19 that it would investigate Maine and 12 other states that have laws requiring health insurance plans to cover abortion services. The office is asserting that a federal provision called the Weldon Amendment, which protects “health care entities” such as...

Julia Conley reports: A state judge in Georgia on Monday set a bail payment at just $1 for a woman who was charged with murder earlier this month after she took abortion pills to end a pregnancy—a charge about which Judge Steven G. Blackerby of State Superior Court expressed extreme skepticism. “I think that charge is extremely...

Many members of the public may assume — wrongly — that everything in their medical records is protected by HIPAA or doctor-patient privilege. They would be wrong on both counts. Privilege is generally intended to protect disclosures that the patient makes when such disclosures are necessary for the healthcare professional to diagnose and/or treat the...

by Amy Yurkanin, ProPublica, with photography by Sarahbeth Maney for ProPublica. This story was originally published by ProPublica. On the afternoon of Sept. 9, 2024, Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at University of Florida Health in downtown Jacksonville when a nurse came in with a bedsheet and told her to cover up. A supervisor brought a...