Joseph J. Lazzarotti of JacksonLewis writes: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently took enforcement action against digital healthcare companies for sharing user information vie third-party tracking pixels, which enable the collection of user data. At the start of the year, the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights issued its own bulletin with guidance regarding…
Category: Breaches
Parents of patients at St. Louis transgender center fear privacy breaches, file complaints
Colleen Schrappen reports: A mother in St. Louis County braced herself last month as she began reading an incriminatory account of the transgender treatment center where her child is a patient. Paragraphs into what the mother calls “wild accusations,” she froze. She was reading about her son. “It literally puts us in the bulls-eye,” the…
McDonald’s seeks ban to forbid confidential consumer information disclosure in voice data lawsuit
Anna Bradley-Smith and JJ Ko reports: McDonald’s should have to face claims it violates Illinois data protection laws by collecting customers’ voiceprints without their consent at its drive-thrus, plaintiff Shannon Carpenter has argued in response to McDonald’s attempt to have his lawsuit dismissed. Carpenter, who filed his class action lawsuit in April and recently had it…
Prince Harry in UK court for privacy case against Daily Mail publisher
Reuters reports: Britain’s Prince Harry made a surprise appearance at London’s High Court on Monday as he and six other high profile figures began their lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail paper over years of alleged phone-tapping and privacy breaches. Harry, the younger son of King Charles, has brought a lawsuit against Associated…