The American Data Privacy and Protection Act would have a particularly large impact on entities that currently collect, process, and transmit health information but are not subject to HIPAA, because ADPPA would be enforce by FTC and General Attorney not by HHS
Keypoint: The chances for the United States to finally enact a federal privacy bill appear to have increased with the circulation of a bipartisan discussion draft although its chances.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Some state governments have resisted requests from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to sign data use agreements that would share information about individuals who had received the COVID-19 vaccine.
Leaders from several states raised privacy concerns about the idea, with
The New York Times reporting that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo worried that such a practice would dissuade undocumented people from getting inoculated. Minnesota officials, meanwhile, said they planned to submit de-identified data on a daily basis once the vaccine campaigns began. Colorado leaders also said the state planned to strip personally identifiable information from data before submission.