The Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award is named in honor of US Supreme Court Justice

Louis Brandeis Louis Dembitz Brandeis (; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939. Starting in 1890, he helped develop the "right to privacy" concept ...

and awarded by Patient Privacy Rights, the top US health privacy watchdog, representing the public's rights and interests in restoring control over the use of medical records/health data. It recognizes "significant intellectual, cultural, legal, scholarly, and technical contributions to the field of health

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." (In his 1928 dissent to ''

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'', Brandeis famously defined privacy as "the right to be left alone.") Recipients include the following. *2012: Representative Joe Barton. Representative Ed Markey, Ross J. Anderson,

Alan Westin Alan Furman Westin (October 11, 1929 – February 18, 2013) was a Professor of Public Law & Government Emeritus, Columbia University, former publisher of ''Privacy & American Business'', and former President of the Center for Social & Legal Resea ...

*2013: Peter Hustinx, Mark Rothstein *2014:

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, Peter Schaar *2015:

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, Masao Horibe *2016: Joe Cannataci *2017: Nikolaus Forgo

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, a UK privacy activist organization, also has its own Louis Brandeis Award for privacy.

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Humanitarian and service awards Awards established in 2012 {{award-stub

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