Companies must understand their websites' tracking technologies and know what data they collect so they can remain compliant. This is especially so within the healthcare sector, said panelists during an IAPP webinar about Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance Wednesday.
A coalition of 21 states, plus Washington, D.C., asked a federal court Monday to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from demanding that they part with the sensitive, personally identifiable information (PII) of millions of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients while litigation is pending about the legality of the agency's request.
Tech-holding company MediaLab.AI and its social messaging app Kik harm children through anonymous accounts that have become a haven for child predators, said Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford (D) in a lawsuit made public Tuesday.
Femtech offers groundbreaking innovations in women's health but also poses serious privacy threats, data protection lawyers said. Even the EU, with its General Data Protection Regulation and AI Act, and the U.K., with its version of the GDPR, may not always provide adequate protection for the highly sensitive personal data that femtech apps collect and use, they added.
TikTok exploits children by using addictive design features, and in turn profits off their time on the social media app, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) alleged in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. These are deceptive and unfair business practices that violate state consumer protection laws, he added.
The claim that Roblox would intentionally put its users "at risk of exploitation is categorically untrue," the company said in a statement Friday in response to a lawsuit from Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill (R) (see 2508140051).
Law firm Kelley Drye failed to properly train employees on cybersecurity or maintain reasonable security safeguards, which allowed a data breach impacting thousands of customers' personal information to be leaked, a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York state court alleged. Additionally, plaintiff Ratna Kanhai claims Kelley Drye didn't report the breach promptly, and the eventual notification was intentionally confusing.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the FCC’s $80 million data breach forfeiture in a unanimous opinion handed down Friday (see 2508150014). T-Mobile was also fined $12.2 million for violations by Sprint, which it later acquired. Judges appeared skeptical of T-Mobile's arguments when the case was heard in March (see 2503240048). T-Mobile is reviewing the decision, a spokesperson said Friday.
A federal judge on Thursday allowed a group of parents to file an appeal instead of an amended complaint in a previously dismissed child privacy case against an education technology platform. The court released a final judgment one day after the plaintiffs made the request at the U.S. District Court for Central California.
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed a Mississippi age-verification law to stand Thursday, denying NetChoice's emergency application that would have blocked the measure.