Justifying public health surveillance: basic interests, unreasonable exercise, and privacy.

Privacy Rights and Public Families

Introduction: The Right to Privacy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 I. The New York State Prenatal Care Assistance Program . . . . 124 R A. Nutritional Risk Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 R B. Psychosocial Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 R C. Additional Required Consultations . . . . . ....

Stigmatization, Discrimination, Racism, Injustice, and Inequalities in the COVID-19 Era

The future of communicable disease control: toward a new concept in public health law.

The exercise of compulsory public health powers for the common good of the community, though rooted in constitutional authority, involves a potentially massive infringement of individual liberty, autonomy, and privacy. Yet, public health statutes do not reflect modern conceptions in either science or law. Most are structurally obsolete and lack criteria for judicial oversight and impartial deci...

A critical review of 10 years of Privacy Technology

This paper is still being revised. It will eventually appear in the proceedings of the 2010 surveillance studies conference. It can then be cited as follows: George Danezis and Seda Gürses, A critical review of 10 years of Privacy Technology, In the Proceedings of Surveillance Cultures: A Global Surveillance Society?, April 2010, UK. Since 2000 there has been a renewed interest amongst computer...

Comprehensive effective and efficient global public health surveillance

At a crossroads, global public health surveillance exists in a fragmented state. Slow to detect, register, confirm, and analyze cases of public health significance, provide feedback, and communicate timely and useful information to stakeholders, global surveillance is neither maximally effective nor optimally efficient. Stakeholders lack a globa surveillance consensus policy and strategy; offic...