By Nicolas Terry Privacy is never easy to think about. This week it became harder. Two pieces framed my week. First, Eben Moglen’s essay in The Guardian (based on his Columbia talks from late last year) took my breath away; glorious writing and stunning breadth combined to deliver a desperately sad (but not entirely hopeless) message about government…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Food and Drug Law Institute are pleased to announce an upcoming collaborative academic symposium: Emerging Issues and New Frontiers for FDA Regulation Monday, October 20,…
By Nicolas Terry A resident of Spain allegedly owed back taxes triggering attachment proceedings. The local newspaper published the details of an upcoming auction of his property in early 1998. At some point the issue was settled. However, the matter was not forgotten—the newspaper was online and a Google search of the gentleman’s name returned this…
By The Petrie-Flom Center The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Food and Drug Law Institute are pleased to announce an upcoming collaborative academic symposium: Emerging Issues and New Frontiers for FDA Regulation Monday, October 20, 2014 Washington, DC We are currently seeking…
By Timo Minssen Following the approval of the European Parliament (EP) earlier last month, the Council of the European Union (the Council) adopted on 14 April 2014 a “Regulation on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use” repealing Directive 2001/20/EC. As described in a press-release, the new law: “aims to remedy the shortcomings of…
By Nathaniel Counts We live in a time when increasingly our personal information is publicly available on the internet. This personal information includes our names and phone numbers, things we’ve written and things we’ve done, along with a good deal of information that only exists because we interact with others on the internet – thoughts…
By Nicolas Terry Cross-posted from HealthLawProf Blog. Where does one start with AOL CEO Armstrong’s ridiculous and unfeeling justifications for changes in his company’s 401(k) plan. Cable TV and Twitter came out of the blocks fast with the obvious critiques. And the outrage only increased after novelist Deanna Fei took to Slate to identify her daughter as one of…
By Nicolas Terry For privacy advocates the last week contained something of a gut-check when the UK’s splendidly descriptive Health and Social Care Information Centre announced something of a bonanza for big data companies; the NHS’s care.data program, here, will make anonymized clinical data broadly available to researchers and commercial interests with few limitations, here. For…
By Nicolas Terry I recently posted this draft on SSRN. Feedback much appreciated. Here is the abstract: Fragmentation and lack of coordination remain as some of the most intractable problems facing health care. Attention has often alighted on the promise of Health care Information Technology not least because IT has had such positive impact on…
By Lauren A. Taylor, Coordinator for Health and Religion in the Global Context, Harvard Divinity School and co-author of The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More Is Getting Us Less(PublicAffairs, 2013). Who is responsible for the stewardship of the body? What about the body’s tissue? Or its blood? While many people suggest that each individual owns…
