If the U.S. Supreme Court rejects President Donald Trump’s firing of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and defies conventional wisdom (see 2512080047), it would go a long way to counter the prevailing view that the court is doing Trump’s bidding regardless of the law, argued Peter Shane, chair in law emeritus at Ohio State University, in Friday's Washington Monthly. If SCOTUS upholds the firing, Trump could also fire members of the FCC with whom he disagrees, including Democratic Commissioner Anna Gomez.
Health care providers should update their HIPAA-related Notice of Privacy Practices by Feb. 16 to comply with new rules related to substance use disorder records, Holland & Hart said in a post Tuesday (see 2512100062).
A federal court has finalized Disney’s $10 million settlement over claims that the company violated COPPA when it failed to designate its YouTube content as “directed toward children,” DOJ said Tuesday.
Companies should review privacy notices, staff training and compliance protocols before Feb. 16 to avoid enforcement action under new HIPAA rules related to substance use disorder records, attorneys at Polsinelli said Tuesday.
The use of facial recognition technology by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is “reckless” and must stop, said privacy, civil liberties and civil rights groups in a letter to the chief privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released Wednesday.
It’s clear DOJ is taking its data transfer rule seriously, given its newly released FAQ offering “substantial” financial reward for whistleblowers, Hogan Lovells attorney James Denvil said in a podcast about the Data Security Program released Thursday.
The FBI doesn’t purchase “continuous or ‘real time’ location data from any phone, internet, or electronic service provider,” the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board said Thursday in a report on the bureau’s open source information practices.
The National Institutes of Health failed to properly oversee privacy and cybersecurity protections for a research program involving health data of more than 1 million participants, the inspector general's office for the Department of Health and Human Services Office said in a report released Friday.
It will likely “take years” for courts to resolve issues related to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Personal Financial Data Rights (PFDR) Rule, Orrick attorneys said in a recent post.
The patchwork of more than 20 state privacy laws confuses consumers and hinders innovation for companies of all sizes, Consumer Technology Association noted in a post Friday.