Though many digital health apps and online platforms fall outside the scope of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), courts and regulators are using other tools to expand enforcement against them when they share sensitive health data without consent, said Sheppard Mullin lawyers in a blog post.
While there is much debate in courts over the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), class certification is one of the largest obstacles, said Morrison Foerster lawyers in a blog post Wednesday.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica site tracks users' activity and then sells it to third parties in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act, said a class-action complaint Tuesday against the venerable reference source. Tracking software was installed on britannica.com and is operated without user knowledge or consent, plaintiff Daniel Vesely alleged.
While companies often understand they risk incurring regulatory fines when they ignore data privacy, many underestimate the real cost of this approach, which includes the potential for lawsuits and class actions, said Bricker Graydon lawyer Nancy Magoteaux in a blog post Tuesday.
Retina Group of Florida suffered a data breach that may have leaked the personal information of more than 150,000 patients, Schubert Jonckheer said Thursday.
A law firm is investigating allegations that Disney violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by collecting personal data, without parental knowledge or consent, from children who watched its videos online, and using the data to serve them targeted ads.
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Class-action plaintiffs using fictitious names in data breach litigation is “a growing trend that raises serious procedural and strategic concerns,” Clark Hill attorneys blogged Friday.
PowerSchool "intends to vigorously defend itself" against the lawsuit that the Texas attorney general filed Wednesday, a spokesperson for the education software company told Privacy Daily in an email. AG Ken Paxton's (R) lawsuit charged that PowerSchool’s failure to protect the personal information of almost 900,000 Texas schoolchildren and educators in a data breach late last year was a violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act (see 2509030059).
A federal court dropped a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) Wednesday, ruling that the complaint did not adequately allege the disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII) within the meaning of the statute.