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Westlaw Today

24 May 2024

Members of the Privacy and Cybersecurity practice, Marcy Wilder, Alyssa Golay, Paige Papandrea and Pariss Briggs, suggest that new laws protecting reproductive health privacy, consumer health information, web-tracking technologies and the use of artificial intelligence require organizations to safeguard sensitive health data more vigilantly.

Federal and state regulators have accelerated their efforts to protect personal health data as artificial intelligence in health care takes hold and the criminalization of abortion (and potentially other sensitive health care) was enabled by the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. New laws protecting reproductive health privacy, consumer health information, web-tracking technologies in health care, and the use of artificial intelligence require increased attention to how organizations are protecting the privacy of sensitive health data.

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