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Amidst Legal Fight, HHS Revises Online Tracking Guidance

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On March 18, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued revised guidance on the use of tracking technologies by HIPAA-covered entities and business associates....more

Alston & Bird

More Guidance from HHS on Online Tracking Technologies but Questions Remain

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Health and Human Services (“HHS”) released updated guidance yesterday on the use of online tracking technologies (like cookies, pixels, software development kits (SDKs), etc.) by HIPAA Covered Entities (the “Updated...more

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DHHS OCR and FTC Issue Warning to Hospital Systems and Telehealth Providers Regarding Privacy and Security Risks

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On July 20, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) through the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a joint letter to hospitals and telehealth providers alerting them to...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

OCR and FTC Issue Warning to Hospital Systems and Telehealth Providers about Tracking Technologies

On July 20, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)announced they were sending a joint letter to approximately 130 unidentified hospital...more

McDermott Will & Emery

FTC and HHS-OCR Spotlight Use of Tracking Tech by Healthcare Providers

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On Thursday, July 20, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission and HHS Office for Civil Rights issued a rare joint press release announcing that approximately 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers received a letter alerting...more

J.S. Held

Litigation Surge From the Use of Tracking Technology & the Sharing of Healthcare and Personal Data

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Introduction: Tracking Software in the Healthcare Industry - Privacy-related concerns have become increasingly prominent in recent years, especially with the widespread use of third-party tracking tools such as tracking...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Tracking Online User Activity: HIPAA and Other Legal Risks

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The use of tracking technologies on websites and mobile applications (e.g., cookies) has become largely ubiquitous in our technology-driven world. Health care providers and organizations, for example, may use tracking...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

News Scan Finds Multiple Threats to Your Privacy

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Your personal information is threatened by more pernicious tools and attacks each year. While this blog often describes poorly written privacy laws stifling business and dangerous bureaucratic overreach by privacy...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

FTC Surveillance App Settlement Signals Concern Over Deceptive Tracking

The FTC recently settled with a surveillance app operator over allegations that the company facilitated the secret harvesting of personal information. According to the FTC, the main users of Support King, LLC’s “SpyFone” app...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #293 – Location, Location, Location-Based Services

This is not the first post discussing location-based services on mobile phones. And it won’t be the last. After reading my colleague’s post on the priest who resigned from his high-profile position after his location was tied...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Apple’s App Tracking Transparency Now In Effect

As of this week, Apple’s requirements for apps to follow its AppTrackingTransparency are now in effect. These requirements went hand-in-hand with the iOS 14.5 launch, and impacts how an app can track users and access their...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #172 – The Weather Company App Collects and Monetizes Users’ Geolocation Information

A lawsuit filed late last week by Los Angeles City Attorney Michael Feuer alleges that TWC Product and Technology LLC (TWC), the company behind The Weather Company App, is collecting, disclosing, selling and monetizing users’...more

Perkins Coie

Bluetooth Beacons: What You Need to Know

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Bluetooth beacons can be a powerful tool for customer engagement. The 2015 holiday season saw retailers experimenting with this kind of proximity marketing, and 2016 is looking like it will see the large-scale deployment of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Recent FTC Consent Decree with InMobi for Unlawful Geolocational Tracking Provides Insight for App Developers

Recently in United States v. InMobi Pte Ltd., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) set a new standard for geolocational tracking. The FTC told app developers and app marketers one simple rule: honor consumers location privacy...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip # 33 – Shopper tracking billboards

I have commented before on the use of location based services on mobile telephones and that apps (and your telecommunications provider) use and sell your location data for all sorts of purposes without your knowledge. The...more

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