Of note from Hunton Andrews Kurth: On November 6, 2024, a Texas state district court jury found that a large e-discovery vendor violated Title 7, Chapter 33 of the Texas Penal Code, which provides that accessing a computer without its owner’s permission is a Class B misdemeanor. This case highlights the importance for e-discovery vendors…
Category: Breaches
Article: The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy
Law professors Daniel J. Solove and Woodrow Hartzog have written an article on an important topic in privacy. Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping” – the automated extraction of large amounts of data from the internet. A great deal of scraped data is about people. This personal…
Atrium Health Substitute Notice Concerning Tracking Pixels Breach
The Charlotte Observer reports: Atrium Health publicly apologized to patients and is notifying people who may have been impacted by an online data disclosure spanning 4 1/2 years before the pandemic, the healthcare giant announced Monday. Personal information may have been sent to third-party vendors such as Google, Facebook (now Meta) and similar media platforms…
Upcoming Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) Changes in 2025
Jeffrey M. Stefan II of Varnum LLP writes: The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), enacted in 1991, protects consumers from unwanted telemarketing calls, robocalls, and texts. On January 27, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) new consent rule for robocalls and robotexts will take effect. The FCC aims to close the “lead generator loophole” by requiring marketers…