From HHS OCR: Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have published the joint letters that were sent in July 2023 to approximately 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers. The letters emphasize the risks and concerns about the use of online tracking technologies,…
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X Plans to Collect Biometric Data, Job and School History
Aisha Counts reports: X, the social network that used to be known as Twitter, updated its privacy policy to include a new kind of user data it plans to collect: biometric. “Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the company said in its new policy….
Berkshire’s Geico must face privacy lawsuit over driver’s license disclosure
Jonathan Stempel reports: Geico must face a proposed nationwide class action accusing the car insurer of violating customers’ privacy by disclosing hundreds of thousands of driver’s license numbers to identity thieves looking to collect fraudulent unemployment benefits. In a decision on Monday, U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto in Brooklyn accepted a magistrate judge’s recommendation that…
Rite Aid Faces Suit Over Health Data Disclosure to Google, Meta
Christopher Brown reports: Rite Aid Corp. shared the protected health information of visitors to its website with Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. without informing them or obtaining their consent in violation of Pennsylvania privacy laws, a proposed federal class action said. Marylou Anderson, Autumn Blaze, Calder Duffy, and Nashere McGee alleged that Rite Aid installed tracking tools from Google and…