Inspections of six websites' use of tracking pixels found that the sites illegally shared visitors' personal information with third parties, including, in some cases, sensitive information, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) said Thursday. It fined one website more than $25,000 (250,000 kroner).
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Privacy engineers should put their heads down and forge ahead with AI governance initiatives regardless of what’s happening in Congress, at the state level or elsewhere, said panelists Tuesday at the USENIX Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect (PEPR) conference. Legal uncertainty may just be a fact of life for the privacy practitioner, they said.
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NBCUniversal Media (NBCU) cited a May 1 appeals court ruling that the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA) applied only to the disclosure of information that would allow an ordinary person to learn a specific individual's video-watching history as reasoning for a district court to dismiss a VPPA case against it (see 2505010046).
A court dismissed claims of privacy violations against Google Thursday that have dogged the company since 2023, ruling that an update on its help pages with instructions about preventing Google from receiving private health information (PHI) proved the tech giant wasn't intentionally obtaining the data.
A coalition of tech watchdogs Wednesday blasted the California Senate's passage of SB-690 (see 2506030058), a bill aimed at amending the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA).
On a unanimous vote, the California Senate supported legislation that amends the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) on Tuesday, moving it one step closer to potential passage. SB-690, sponsored by Sen. Anna Caballero (D), would eliminate wiretapping, pen register and trap-and-trace liabilities from online tracking technologies used for business under CIPA.
A federal court’s decision to consolidate more than 2,400 individual arbitration claims into a single class-action complaint against a clothing retailer for its use of pixel-tracking technologies highlights two litigation trends: leveraging old laws for new technologies and the common practice of individuals with the same counsel filing identical arbitration claims and demands, said a privacy lawyer at Robinson+Cole.
A Texas federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit against Eyemart Express that alleges the eyewear company tracks users’ activity on its website without consent or disclosing tracking practices. The plaintiffs didn't prove their private health information (PHI) was actually disclosed to a social media platform, Judge David Godbey said in dismissing the case.
A bill aimed at amending the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) may decrease the number of lawsuits if it's passed, but plaintiffs’ attorneys could simply find other avenues to bring claims, privacy lawyers who often represent defendants in such cases said.