Healthline apparently violated “the gossip test for sensitive data” when it shared with advertisers titles of articles that individual users were reading, which effectively suggested they had certain medical diagnoses, Cobun Zweifel-Keegan, IAPP managing director for Washington, D.C., posted on the privacy association’s website Friday.
California is “moving quickly” to block the Trump administration from illegally sharing individuals’ sensitive information for immigration enforcement purposes, Attorney General Ron Bonta (D) said Thursday.
California privacy bills related to location, public officials and reproductive health cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee after a lengthy hearing earlier this week, the state legislature’s website showed Thursday.
Virginia’s reproductive health data privacy law could be amended next year in response to concerns from retailers, state Sen. Barbara Favola (D) said in an email to Privacy Daily Wednesday. “I expect to be making some changes to my data privacy law during the 2026 session.”
AI and data breaches were among top issues last year for Italian data protection authority Garante, it said Tuesday in an annual report.
The Department of Health & Human Services’ latest Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act settlement suggests the Trump administration will continue focusing on compliance with the HIPAA Security Rule, healthcare privacy attorneys told us in interviews.
Organizations should be aware of how broadly DOJ defines “personal health data” in its data transfer rule, attorneys at Bodman said in a Thursday post.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) hasn’t kept pace with privacy risks associated with wearable devices, Senate Health Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., said during a hearing Wednesday. Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo., also addressed the issue, noting state laws like the Colorado Privacy Act impose security requirements on companies selling wearables.
A mental health provider will pay $225,000 over claims it violated health privacy law by publicly sharing users’ sensitive information online, the Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights announced Monday.
A California-led multistate coalition sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on Tuesday for providing individuals' health data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).