Emily Chudy reports: Dating app Grindr is being sued for allegedly sharing users’ personal information, including their HIV status and ethnicity. According to reports from the BBC, the claim was lodged at the High Court in London, alleging that Grindr had used “covert tracking technology”, and that highly sensitive information had been illegally shared with…
Category: Breaches
Alcohol Addiction Treatment Firm Banned from Disclosing Health Data for Advertising to Settle FTC Charges that It Shared Data Without Consent
In February 2023, The Markup and STAT reported that a bipartisan group of senators fiercely criticized several prominent telehealth startups for failing to protect their patients’ sensitive health information, citing an investigation by The Markup and STAT. Their investigation had included Monument. On April 11, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it had taken action…
Rounding up Five Recent CJEU Cases on GDPR Compensation
Kristof Van Quathem and Aleksander Aleksiev of Covington and Burling write: In recent months, the European Court of Justice (“CJEU”) issued five judgments providing some clarity on the scope of individuals’ rights to claim compensation for “material and non-material damage” under Article 82 of the GDPR. These rulings will inform companies’ exposure to compensation claims,…
Proposed FTC Order Prohibits Telehealth Firm Cerebral from Using or Disclosing Sensitive Data for Advertising Purposes, Requires it to Pay $7M
April 15 – Cerebral, Inc. has agreed to an order that will restrict how the company can use or disclose sensitive consumer data and require it to provide consumers with a simple way to cancel services to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the telehealth firm failed to secure and protect sensitive health data. Under the…