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On March 3, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a significant ruling that has the potential to broaden the risk of liability under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). ...more
When browsing the internet, consumers are accustomed to being presented with advertisements for products for which they previously had searched. Through use of third-party tracking tools, companies are able to monitor visitor...more
While readers of this blog are familiar with the proliferation of California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) wiretapping claims, our readers may be less familiar with CIPA-related GET Request claims. Below, we explain what...more
Our readers are well aware of the proliferation of lawsuits alleging California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) violations against companies that use third-party tracking technology to collect consumer data on their...more
Despite some favorable rulings, lawsuits alleging California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) claims against companies that use third-party tracking technology to collect consumer data on their websites show no signs of...more
The California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”) and the Massachusetts Wiretap Act (“MWA”) are state statutes which prohibit the unlawful recording of communications. As our readers can guess, CIPA and MWA originally were...more
Data privacy-related lawsuits have skyrocketed in recent years. Federal courts saw over 900 data privacy dockets in 2020 – but witnessed a surge to 1,767 dockets in 2023. At the halfway point in 2024, federal court data...more
Recently, companies have found themselves defending allegations that the use of third-party pixel tracking technology on their websites violates state consumer privacy laws. Fortunately, these claims do not always survive the...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has assumed the authority to enforce unauthorized data disclosures under the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act). During the past three weeks, the FTC has used this authority to go after...more
On November 2, 2023, the American Hospital Association and Texas Hospital Association, in conjunction with the Texas Health Resources and United Regional Health Care System, filed suit against the Secretary of the Department...more
Health care providers should evaluate their use of “tracking technologies” on their websites and mobile applications (apps) for compliance with HIPAA. On December 1, 2022, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a bulletin...more
In a very comprehensive post from the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology, the FTC takes what it calls “[a] deep dive into the technical side of FTC’s recent cases on digital health platforms, GoodRx &...more
Watch out HHS, the FTC is taking the lead in enforcing privacy violations by companies also subject to HIPAA. BetterHelp, an on-line mental health platform, engaged in unfair and unreasonable privacy practices according to...more
Health privacy has been a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) priority for decades, and indeed, one of its very first privacy cases, in the early 2000s, involved the inadvertent sharing of user health data. Fast-forward a few...more
Websites using data tracking and collection software risk potentially serious consequences under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly referred to as “HIPAA.” In a Bulletin issued December...more
In a December 2022 bulletin published by the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), HHS made clear that the use of third-party tracking technologies by covered entities and business...more
Earlier this week, our Fox partner Odia Kagan spoke on HIMSS TV about the risks associated with what may be a “blind spot” in your data privacy compliance efforts: the use of data trackers (such as cookies, tracking pixels,...more
Welcome to the third installment in our eight-part series preparing you for the post-cookie world. In our first post, we provided a deep dive into third-party cookies for a baseline understanding of the technology and the...more
What does the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office have to say about what it takes for adtech initiatives to be compliant with data protection? “There is an opportunity for market participants to move towards developing...more
The development of alternative techniques to “third-party” cookies cannot be done at the expense of the right of individuals to protect their personal data and privacy, according to France’s Commission Nationale de...more
Website operators are not permitted to use cookies and similar tracking technologies for analysis and marketing purposes without the informed consent of users, if this involves sharing personal data with third parties and...more
Many companies, such as online retailers and social media websites, participate in “behavioral advertising.” To participate in the network, the company places code on its website that permits a third party (the behavioral...more
Recent legislative hearings in the United States and Europe have focused on the means by which large third-party data collectors track individuals via websites. Regulators have paid comparatively little attention to the...more
The Eleventh Circuit issued a notable ruling this week limiting a mobile app’s liability under the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), 18 U.S.C. § 2710, a law enacted in 1988 to preserve “consumer” personal privacy with...more
In the wake of numerous high-profile breaches of user privacy and complaints about sites that track the online activity of users, California Attorney General Kamala Harris has released a 28-page set of recommendations for how...more