While a longstanding federal health law doesn't cover as much data as some people think, more recent state measures may be overcompensating and over-complicating health care privacy, said WilmerHale privacy attorney Kirk Nahra on a Tuesday webinar. Daniel Solove, George Washington University Law professor, predicted “we're going to see ... this complicated landscape get even more complicated.”
Law firm Edelson Lechtzin on Monday announced it's investigating claims against financial services company SogoTrade for potential violations of data privacy.
A Tennessee public school system sued software provider PowerSchool over a breach in December 2024 where hackers stole student and teacher data. The complaint alleges breach of contract, false advertising and negligence as a result of personal information being accessed by bad actors.
A fourth amended class action complaint was filed Friday in a case alleging NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) violated the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) through its use of the Meta tracking pixel. The case, Golden v. NBCUniversal Media, was previously dismissed when the U.S. District Court for Southern New York ruled that the plaintiff did not count as a "consumer" under the Act, but changed its mind following the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling in a VPPA case in October (see 2501100009).
Oracle Health was sued for allegedly sharing the private health information of two patients with Google via the corporation’s marketing systems without patient knowledge or consent. Filed last week, the class-action lawsuit argued Oracle violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule.
A class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday against insurance company Kelly Benefits for a data breach alleges the company's negligence led to the breach and leak of sensitive information, invading individuals' privacy and violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
Toyota was sued Monday in the U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas for the alleged collection and sale of drivers' data to insurance company Progressive, despite saying in their Data Sharing Policies that it does not share this information without the drivers' consent. Progressive uses the data in their Snapshot data-sharing program that measures a variety of aspects related to driving, the class action alleges.
Two recent Circuit Court of Appeals cases dealing with the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) of 1988, combined with the 2nd Circuit’s ruling in NBA v. Salazar from October, may have set the stage for a future ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court over whether old laws can be expanded and constitutionally interpreted to apply to new technologies, privacy lawyers say. Others say the circuit split may be resolve by Congress revisiting the statute.
Google was hit with a class-action complaint Monday alleging the company's education products secretly harvest mass amounts of student information and data without their or their parents’ knowledge or consent.
Testers, those who seek privacy violations with the goal of filing lawsuits, lack Article III standing to sue for pen register and wiretapping infractions under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), according to a decision from the U.S. District Court for Central California Friday.