The Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Award is named in honor of US Supreme Court Justice
Louis Brandeis 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
information privacy
Information privacy is the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, contextual information norms, and the legal and political issues surrounding them. It is also known as data ...
." (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:
Representative Joe Barton.
Representative Ed Markey,
Ross J. Anderson,
Alan Westin
*2013:
Peter Hustinx,
Mark Rothstein
*2014:
Latanya Sweeney,
Peter Schaar
*2015:
Alex Pentland
Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1951) is an American computer scientist, the Toshiba Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, and serial entrepreneur.
Education
Pentland received his bachelor's degree from the University of M ...
,
Masao Horibe
*2016:
Joe Cannataci
*2017:
Nikolaus ForgoPrivacy International
Privacy International (PI) is a UK-based registered charity that defends and promotes the right to privacy across the world. First formed in 1990, registered as a non-profit company in 2002 and as a charity in 2012, PI is based in London. Its c ...
, a UK privacy activist organization, also has its own Louis Brandeis Award for privacy.
See also
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List of humanitarian and service awards
This list of humanitarian and service awards is an index to articles on notable awards given for humanitarianism and service in the sense of community service, public service or selfless service. The list is organized by region and country. Some o ...
The Celebration of Privacy Gala
References
Humanitarian and service awards
Awards established in 2012
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