Plaintiffs who sued Microsoft for tracking, recording and selling of users’ internet activity voluntarily dismissed their complaint Thursday. They gave no reason for their action.
Ketch announced an age-gating and video-consent product for addressing kids’ privacy law compliance and wiretapping litigation. The compliance vendor said its release of “dynamic consent” tools responds to a growing number of age-appropriate design code and other age-verification laws in the states, as well as increasing litigation against businesses from plaintiffs’ attorneys under laws like the California Invasion of Privacy Act and the federal Video Privacy Protection Act.
DOJ received industry requests this month to scrutinize the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA) and other state privacy measures as possibly burdening interstate commerce. The closely watched Maryland legislation takes effect Oct. 1. The chief privacy officer of one company that flagged MODPA told Privacy Daily that his business' main concern is the part of the law's unique data minimization requirement that bans sale of precise location data.
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.”