Georgetown University Law Center

About: Georgetown University Law Center is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Supreme court & Public health. The organization has 585 authors who have published 2488 publications receiving 36650 citations. The organization is also known as: Georgetown Law & GULC.

National health information privacy: regulations under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Abstract: Health information privacy is important in US society, but existing federal and state law does not offer adequate protection The Department of Health and Human Services, under powers granted by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, recently issued a final rule providing systematic, nationwide health information privacy protection The rule is extensive in its scope, applying to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers (hospitals, clinics, and health departments) who conduct financial transactions electronically ("covered entities") The rule applies to personally identifiable information in any form, whether communicated electronically, on paper, or orally The rule does not preempt state law that affords more stringent privacy protection; thus, the health care industry will have to comply with multiple layers of federal and state law The rule affords patients rights to education about privacy safeguards, access to their medical records, and a process for correction of records It also requires the patient's permission for disclosures of personal information While privacy is an important value, it may conflict with public responsibilities to use data for social goods The rule has special provisions for disclosure of health information for research, public health, law enforcement, and commercial marketing The privacy debate will continue in Congress and within the president's administration The primary focus will be on the costs and burdens on health care providers, the ability of health care professionals to use and share full medical information when treating patients, the provision of patient care in a timely and efficient manner, and parents' access to information about the health of their children

DRM and privacy

Abstract: The future of privacy is increasingly linked to the future of copyright enforcement. In their push to control the proliferation of unauthorized copies, and to maximize profit from information goods distributed over the Internet, copyright owners and their technology partners are designing digital rights management (DRM) technologies that will allow more perfect control over access to and use of digital files. The same capabilities that enable more perfect control also implicate the privacy interests of users of information goods. Although DRM technologies vary considerably, at the most general level they represent an effort to reshape the practices and spaces of intellectual consumption. They also create the potential for vastly increased collection of information about individuals' intellectual habits and preferences. Quite apart from the questions of intellectual property policy that surround DRM technologies, therefore, the proper balance between DRM and user privacy is an important question in its own right. Interrogating the relationship between copyright enforcement and privacy raises deeper questions about the nature of privacy and what counts, or ought to count, as privacy invasion in the age of networked digital technologies. This Article begins, in Part II, by identifying the different types of privacy interests that individuals enjoy in their intellectual activities and exploring the different ways in which DRM technologies threaten these interests. Part III considers the appropriate scope of legal protection for privacy in the context of DRM, and argues that both the common law of privacy and an expanded conception of consumer protection law have roles to play in protecting the privacy of information users. Finally, Part IV considers whether DRM technologies and standards processes themselves might be harnessed to protect privacy.

Fair Use Infrastructure for Copyright Management Systems

Abstract: Author(s): Burk, Dan L; Cohen, Julie E | Abstract: Japanese translation of article published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology