Giles Bruce reports: A Georgia hospital has defeated a class-action lawsuit over the use of data-tracking tools on its websites, Law.com reported. A state court granted Moultrie, Ga.-based Colquitt Regional Medical Center’s motion to dismiss the complaint, which alleged the hospital unlawfully collected patients’ protected health information and transmitted it to third parties like Meta’s Facebook, according…
Category: Breaches
Kenyan court orders Worldcoin to delete all biometric data
Sam Adeyemo reports: A Kenyan high court has ruled that decentralized identity protocol Worldcoin’s collection of biometric data violated the country’s data protection laws. The court has now ordered the firm to permanently delete all biometric data it has collected within seven days of the ruling. According to reports in Kenyan media, Worldcoin failed to conduct a…
Meta Fined 200 Million Euros for its ‘Pay or Consent’ Model
Akshaya Asokan reports: European regulators said Facebook conducted an end run around privacy regulations by requiring users to pay a monthly subscription fee or else accept that their personal data would be fed to advertisers. The European Commission fined the social media giant 200 million euros. The commission on Wednesday said Facebook courted the fine by not…
DOGE is building a ‘master database’ of sensitive information, top Oversight Democrat says
Natalie Alms reports: The Department of Government Efficiency is building a single, cross-agency database of sensitive information from the IRS, Social Security Administration, Department of Health and Human Services and other agencies, according to new, whistleblower-informed oversight on Capitol Hill. The effort is “unprecedented,” said a Thursday letter the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability…