As recipients of federal funding (i.e., schools, colleges) across the country prepare to implement another iteration of Title IX regulations in 2023, they should thoughtfully consider how their ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

We must uphold the standards of FOIPOP (Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act) and PIIDPA (Personal Information International Disclosure Protection Act ...

Although often used interchangeably in common discourse, for the purposes of human research protection, the terms "privacy" and "confidentiality" represent two different concepts: one related to the ...

All the people involved in the adoption triangle - children, birth families and adopters - need information. At the... All the people involved in the adoption triangle - children, birth families and ...

In a long-awaited decision concerning the confidentiality of medical records and patient privacy, the Connecticut Supreme Court recently concluded that the physician-patient relationship establishes a ...

Confidentiality and privacy may be the main reasons why litigants chose arbitration over court proceedings but they should not be taken for granted, says David Lytton The perceived advantages of ...

As clinical genetics evolves, and we embark down the path toward more personalized and effective health care, the amount, detail, and complexity of genetic/genomic test information within the ...

Recent advances in high-throughput genomic technologies are showing concrete results in the form of an increasing number of genome-wide association studies and in the publication of comprehensive ...