Privacy groups criticize HHS agreement to access DHS data
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, May 1, 2006
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Privacy advocates and airline associations are attacking a data-sharing agreement that HHS and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) signed in October 2005 to help manage an influenza pandemic, Government Health IT reports.
The two departments appear to have made the agreement in October 2005, a month before the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issued a proposed rule that would allow it to access airline passenger information. Although government officials will not detail the pact, a filing against the agreement by the Air Transportation Association of America reveals that it has many of the same provisions as the CDC's proposed rule.
American airline organizations criticize the CDC's proposed rule because of the high costs of data collection. European airlines maintain that it violates data-sharing and privacy agreements that the United States has made with the European Union.
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