Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) will sign into law Thursday a sweeping measure that is aimed at protecting the data privacy of people seeking reproductive and gender-affirming health care but has the potential to do much more.
Privacy attorneys say the language, definitions and scope of the “Washington My Health My Data Act” are uniquely broad, making it, in the words of one lawyer, “a transformative privacy law for the United states.”
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