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Brandeis Award (privacy)

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The Brandeis Award is named in honor of Louis Brandeis and awarded by Patient Privacy Rights, a health privacy watchdog. It recognizes "significant intellectual, cultural, legal, scholarly, and technical contributions to the field of health information privacy." (In his 1928 dissent to Olmstead v. United States, Brandeis famously defined privacy as "the right to be left alone.")

Recipients include the following.

  • 2012: Joe Barton. Ed Markey, Ross J. Anderson, Alan Westin
  • 2013: Peter Hustinx, Mark Rothstein
  • 2014: Latanya Sweeney, de:Peter Schaar
  • 2015: Alex Pentland, Masao Horibe
  • Privacy International, a UK privacy activist organization, also has its own Louis Brandeis Award for privacy.

    References

    Brandeis Award (privacy) Wikipedia


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