U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) attempts to collect personal data of millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients from the states are unnecessary, inefficient, and unlawful, said a Friday comment letter from a coalition of states, led by the California attorney general. The USDA, which suspended its data demand after a lawsuit from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and others, published a System of Records Notice (SORN) on June 23 in an attempt to resolve legal issues and resume the data collection (see 2507180027).
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal's recent ruling in Gutierrez v. Converse raised the bar for plaintiffs filing lawsuits involving website chats, and questioned whether the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) applies to internet communications, said three Fisher Phillips lawyers in a blog post Monday.
Temu isn't collecting personally identifiable information without consent and sending it to China's government, the company's spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Privacy Daily on Sunday. Temu denied those claims made by Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman (R) days after the AG filed a lawsuit against the company alleging Kentucky Consumer Privacy Act violations (see 2507170044).
Wikipedia's operator will argue in London's High Court of Justice this week that upcoming provisions of the U.K. Online Safety Act (OSA) could classify the site incorrectly and hence threaten the privacy of those Wikipedia contributors who choose to remain anonymous.
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.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has tried to justify collecting personal data of millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients, but its efforts have fallen short, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said in comments submitted Wednesday to the department.
Online marketplace Temu is collecting Kentuckians' personally identifiable information without consent and possibly making it available to China's government, Kentucky's attorney general said Thursday. In addition, the company is stealing the intellectual property of U.S.-based companies and engaging in other kinds of consumer fraud, AG Russell Coleman (R) said in a lawsuit.
There’s an audit trail showing Palantir is following privacy laws and protocols in its work with agencies like DHS and the Internal Revenue Service, the company's global privacy director said Wednesday.
As laws and enforcement continue in the privacy and AI space, companies must pay attention to detail, panelists said during a webinar that vendor TrustArc hosted Tuesday.
Despite a modest fine, a settlement this week between Connecticut and online marketplace TicketNetwork over potential violations of the state's Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) (see 2507080010) includes significant takeaways, privacy professionals said. However, a consumer advocate said the $85,000 penalty -- the first under the CTDPA -- also shows how comprehensive privacy laws based on Connecticut's model don't do enough to protect consumers.