Antitrust Law Daily Wrap Up, CONFERENCES: FTC announces agenda for seminar on privacy implications of consumer generated and controlled health data, (May 2, 2014)

The FTC has announced the agenda and panelists for the upcoming seminar on the privacy ramifications of consumer generated and controlled health data, scheduled for May 7 in Washington, D.C.

The seminar, which is part of the FTC’s spring privacy series, will look at the various ways consumers are increasingly managing and generating their own health data, from researching their health conditions online to uploading their information into personal health records and apps that allow them to manage and analyze their data. Speakers and panelists will explore the potential privacy implications of these emerging technologies along with their possible benefits.

The Commission’s Chief Technologist Latanya Sweeney will conduct a presentation on health data flows. Attorney from the FTC’s Mobile Technology Unit will conduct a presentation titled “A Snapshot of Data Sharing by Select Health and Fitness Apps.” The seminar moderators are attorneys Cora Han and Kristen Anderson of the FTC Division of Privacy and Identity Protection.

Panelists scheduled to appear include Dr. Christopher R. Burrow, Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs, Humetrix; Joseph Lorenzo Hall, Chief Technologist, The Center for Democracy & Technology; Sally Okun, Vice President for Advocacy, Policy and Patient Safety, PatientsLikeMe; Heather Patterson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, New York University; and Joy Pritts, Chief Privacy Officer, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

The two-hour seminar, free and open to the public, will be held at the FTC Conference Center, located at 601 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

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