Policy Brief

Calendar

May 12
Deven McGraw will participate in a panel discussion, "Engaging Patients to Deliver Better Value in Health Care," from 8:30-9:30 am in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C.
May 13
Jim Dempsey will be speaking about privacy at the Tech Policy Summit in San Mateo, CA
May 14
Jim Dempsey will speak about "User Conduct and User Safety" at the Legal Frontiers in Digital Media conference at Stanford.
May 14
Alissa Cooper will speak about "Clicks and Customers: New Technologies and Online Advertising" at the Legal Frontiers in Digital Media conference at Stanford.
May 19
Deven McGraw will speak on a panel entitled "Risks, Opportunities and Strategies for Payers as ONCHIT Develops EHR, PHR and Other New Standards Targeted for Year End 2009," as part of the annual TriZetto Payer Conference in Marcos Island, Florida.
May 20
Deven McGraw will speak on a panel, Putting Health IT to Use - Will the New Incentives Work, at a forum hosted by the Markle Foundation and the Brookings Institution on "Health IT and Health Reform: Linking Incentives to Drive Accountability and Value," in Washington, D.C.
May 21
Deven McGraw will participate in a lunch briefing entitled, "The Personal Health Record Meets the Electronic Medical Record: Getting the Healthcare Information Right Toward Patient Safety," sponsored by the Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Telehealth and Healthcare Informatics, in Washington, D.C.
May 27
Leslie Harris will speak on a GNI Panel at The 7th Chinese Internet Research Conference held at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.
May 28
Brock Meeks will speak to participants in a Knight Foundation Seminar for professional journalists on a panel titled: Digital Life: Policy & Privacy Online
June 2
Jim Dempsey will speak at PLI's Privacy and Data Security Law Institute in San Francisco
June 3
Jim Dempsey will speak at the CDT-TRUSTe Tech Policy Series event on cloud computing.
June 3
Greg Nojeim will moderate a panel on reform of ECPA at the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Washington, D.C.
June 3
Deven McGraw will participate on a panel on the future of medical privacy at the annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP 2009) conference in Washington, D.C.
June 5
Sheel Pandya will speak at a workshop on Protecting Privacy and Confidentiality of Geographic Data at the GIS in Public Health Conference in Providence, RI.
June 19
Leslie Harris will speak on "The Evolution of Privacy In a Facebook Age: Changing Consumer Expectations of Privacy; Can The Law Keep Up?" at the ABA Consumer Protection conference.
June 18 - 19
Leslie Harris will speak on the Evolution of Privacy In a Facebook Age at the ABA Section on Antitrust consumer protection conference held at Georgetown University.
June 21
Jim Dempsey will speak at PLI's Privacy and Data Security Law Institute in Chicago.
July 1
Deven McGraw will speak on a panel regarding implementation of the privacy provisions in the recent economic stimulus legislation as part of the Health Information Technology Symposium at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, MA.
July 19
Deven McGraw will participate in a plenary panel discussion on privacy and access to information at the annual meeting of the Genetics Alliance at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

Headlines

CDT's Deven McGraw Named to Federal Advisory Health IT Policy Committee

Deven McGraw, director of the Health Privacy Project at CDT, was named today to the federal advisory Health Information Technology Policy Committee. McGraw will serve a three-year term on the Committee. The Committee will make policy recommendations for the development and adoption of a nationwide information infrastructure, including standards for the secure and private exchange of patient medical information. The Committee was established as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. May 08, 2009

HHS Press Release on Committee Appointments May 08, 2009 [off-site]

CDT Testifies on Data Security and P2P Disclosure Bills

CDT's David Sohn testified today before a congressional subcommittee on two pending privacy-related bills. Appearing before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, Sohn stated CDT's support for the principal elements of the Data Accountability and Trust Act (H.R. 2221), owing to provisions in the bill that would allow consumers the right to review their data broker files. On the Informed P2P User Act (H.R. 1319), Sohn said that CDT supports the principle that file sharing functions should be disclosed clearly to users, but also warned that legislating in this area poses difficulties. The testimony emphasized that dealing effectively with data privacy and security issues will require general baseline privacy legislation. May 05, 2009

CDT Testimony on Data Security and P2P Disclosure [PDF] May 05, 2009

Other Leading Headlines

CDT Testifies Before Congress on Cybersecurity Issues May 01, 2009

David R. Johnson Joins CDT as First Senior Resident Fellow May 01, 2009

CDT Cautions Congress About DPI Technologies; Urges Enactment of Baseline Consumer Privacy Law April 23, 2009

HHS Issues Guidance on Security Technologies for Breach of Health Records April 17, 2009

CDT Urges FCC to Avoid Filtering and Other Mandates April 17, 2009

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