Andy Brownell reports: The Mayo Clinic has apparently settled another lawsuit stemming from a data breach by a former Mayo Clinic employee. The lawsuit was filed in November 2020 by Olga Ryabchuk and sought class-action status on behalf of the more than 1600 Mayo Clinic patients who had their medical records improperly accessed. The case was officially…
Category: Breaches
European data protection authorities issue record €2.92 billion in GDPR fines
Michael Hill reports: European data regulators issued a record €2.92 billion in fines last year, a 168% increase from 2021. That’s according to the latest GDPR and Data Breach survey from international law firm DLA Piper, which covers all 27 Member States of the European Union, plus the UK, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. This year’s biggest fine…
Meta sues “scraping-for-hire” service that sells user data to law enforcement
Dan Goodwin reports: Meta said it’s suing “scraping-for-hire” service Voyager Labs for allegedly using fake accounts, proprietary software, and a sprawling network of IP addresses to surreptitiously collect massive amounts of personal data from users of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social networking sites. “Defendant created and used over 38,000 fake Facebook user accounts and…
Wiretap lawsuit accuses Apple of tracking iPhone users who opted out
Jude Karabus reports: Apple “unlawfully records and uses consumers’ personal information and activity,” claims a new lawsuit accusing the company of tracking iPhone users’ device data even when they’ve asked for tracking to be switched off. The would-be class action lawsuit, filed in Pennsylvania, accuses [PDF] Apple of violating Pennsylvania’s Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act, as well as…