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	<title>Privacy Lives &#187; DNA</title>
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		<title>Dilbert Cartoon About a Job Interview and Privacy</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/dilbert-cartoon-about-a-job-interview-and-privacy/2011/12/01/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/dilbert-cartoon-about-a-job-interview-and-privacy/2011/12/01/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams a few weeks ago and thought it was a funny, extreme take on employers researching job applicants via online Web sites such as social networks or drug/DNA tests. Click on the cropped image to see the full cartoon.]]></description>
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		<title>TwinCities.com: Minnesota Supreme Court backs families over newborns&#8217; blood storage</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/twincities-com-minnesota-supreme-court-backs-families-over-newborns-blood-storage/2011/11/22/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TwinCities.com reports on a case concerning the storage of newborn babies&#8217; blood in Minnesota. I’ve written before about the unauthorized or unknowing retention and use of babies’ blood samples for purposes other than disease screening. The Washington Post has written about the ethics and privacy issues when children’s medical data is collected and retained without parents’ knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Associated Press: Police cite privacy concerns over their own DNA</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/associated-press-police-cite-privacy-concerns-over-their-own-dna/2011/10/17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports that police across the country are raising questions about the privacy of their DNA data: When police in southern Louisiana were investigating the deaths of eight women in 2009, the sophistication of the crimes set off rumors that the serial killer was a police officer _ speculation that became so pervasive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tennessean: Employers tell workers to get healthy or pay up</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/tennessean-employers-tell-workers-to-get-healthy-or-pay-up/2011/09/15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/tennessean-employers-tell-workers-to-get-healthy-or-pay-up/2011/09/15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tennessean reports on the issue of employee medical privacy: Instead of waiting to pick up the tab when someone gets sick, more employers now expect their workers to be engaged in staying healthy. They want workers to get annual physicals, know whether they have diabetes, hypertension or high cholesterol and then take actions to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Passes Bill to Prohibit Genetic Discrimination</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/california-passes-bill-to-prohibit-genetic-discrimination/2011/09/12/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/california-passes-bill-to-prohibit-genetic-discrimination/2011/09/12/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed SB 559, the California Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (CalGINA) (pdf). The legislation builds on the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-233). GINA, which was signed in May 2008 by President Bush, restricts the collection and use of genetic information in a number of ways. GINA prohibits health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times of India: Right to privacy may become fundamental right</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/times-of-india-right-to-privacy-may-become-fundamental-right/2011/06/07/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/times-of-india-right-to-privacy-may-become-fundamental-right/2011/06/07/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times of India reports on a movement in the country to make privacy a fundamental right: The law ministry is working on a proposal to make right to privacy a fundamental right in the Indian Constitution. [...] &#8220;We are working on making right to privacy a fundamental right. It is likely to be tabled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Forced DNA Testing in Argentina</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/update-on-forced-dna-testing-in-argentina/2011/06/06/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/update-on-forced-dna-testing-in-argentina/2011/06/06/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 06:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009, Argentina&#8217;s Congress passed a law authorizing &#8220;the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago &#8211; even when they don&#8217;t want to know their birth parents,&#8221; reported the Associated Press. Predictably, there has been litigation over the law and whether it is an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy and use of newborns&#8217; blood samples</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/privacy-and-use-of-newborns-blood-samples/2011/04/15/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/privacy-and-use-of-newborns-blood-samples/2011/04/15/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 09:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve written before about the unauthorized or unknowing retention and use of babies’ blood samples for purposes other than disease screening. The Washington Post has written about the ethics and privacy issues when children’s medical data is collected and retained without parents’ knowledge or consent. In mid-2010, Texas announced that, as part of a lawsuit settlement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council for Responsible Genetics: Guide to Forensic DNA Databases Worldwide</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/council-for-responsible-genetics-guide-to-forensic-dna-databases-worldwide/2011/01/21/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/council-for-responsible-genetics-guide-to-forensic-dna-databases-worldwide/2011/01/21/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Council for Responsible Genetics, GeneWatch UK, and Privacy International have joined together for &#8220;a project that seeks to achieve a direct impact on the human rights standards adopted for DNA database legislation across the world.&#8221; They have created new information resources that outline the global growth of DNA databases and the human rights issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economist Opens Online Debate on Medical Privacy and Electronic Health Records</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/economist-opens-online-debate-on-medical-privacy-and-electronic-health-records/2010/12/02/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/economist-opens-online-debate-on-medical-privacy-and-electronic-health-records/2010/12/02/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist has posed this statement concerning medical privacy and electronic health records: &#8220;This house believes that any loss of privacy from digitising health care will be more than compensated for by the welfare gains from increased efficiency.&#8221; The moderator says: &#8220;Britain&#8217;s health system is undergoing a painful and costly process of digitisation. Thanks to [...]]]></description>
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