As litigation over wiretapping and other privacy claims continues to rise, having a cookie banner on your website remains an important defense, said Morrison Foerster lawyers during a webinar Wednesday. But there’s more to it than that, they added.
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.
Despite efforts to provide businesses with more clarity concerning online tracking rules, there are still misunderstandings about how the law applies to storage and access technologies like cookies or tracking pixels, the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (CO) said Thursday in a post that debunked several myths.
The variety in privacy laws and standards give companies some flexibility in how consent banners are displayed on their websites, said panelists during an IAPP webinar Tuesday. But they cautioned that teams throughout an organization must understand how trackers operate on the site and what data is collected.
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.
As conflict over the scope of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) continues, some plaintiffs are becoming more creative in how they can apply the videotape-focused statute from 1988. Recently, that's centered on video games. But as Perkins Cole lawyers blogged about an Aug. 7 ruling of the U.S. District Court for Central California, “simply purchasing a game doesn’t unlock the door to a VPPA claim.”
A case alleging the NHL violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) by using Facebook's Meta tracking pixel on its website without user knowledge or consent should be dismissed, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Moses said Friday. Moses argued that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim under the statute in case 1:23-cv-02083, Zachary Joiner vs. NHL.
Despite technology recording a woman's activity on a shopping site, that wasn't enough for her to claim a concrete privacy injury, an appeals court ruled as it dismissed her class-action suit. Celebrating the decision, advocacy groups said merely invoking the word "privacy" doesn't necessarily equate to a legitimate claim.
The plaintiff in a Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) case against satirical news site The Onion voluntarily dropped the complaint in a court document Friday. No reason for the dismissal was given.