CDT's Health Privacy Project
Mar 11, 2008
The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) made a series of announcements today that signal its growing interest in the privacy challenges associated with electronic health data.
To start, CDT has annexed an organization called The Health Privacy Project and has named a new director, Deven McGraw, who will oversee the program within CDT. Under McGraw's direction, the project's charter will be to analyze pending e-health legislation and to develop proposals for addressing privacy concerns.
CDT will also partner with the Markle Foundation's Connecting for Health Collaborative to develop tools that promote sharing of e-health data in a secure and private manner. The two have already teamed up on a policy brief that calls for use of "core privacy principles" like transparency, limiting data to the specified purpose and allowing individuals control over their own information.
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