Mary Anne Pazanowski reports: Federal privacy rules limiting when health-care providers can share abortion-related information with state officials and law enforcement should be vacated and set aside, Texas told a federal court. The provisions are contrary to the underlying statute, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, which expressly recognizes state investigative authority, Texas said…
Category: Court
Privacy Class Action Spotlight: Surge of Privacy Class Actions in Arizona Targeting Email Pixel Tracking
Leslie Shanklin, Jeff Warshafsky, Aaron Francis, and Anna W. Chan of Proskauer write: There has been a recent surge of privacy class action lawsuits under the Arizona Telephone, Utility, and Communication Service Records Act targeting the use of common email marketing analytics technologies. Defendants are asserting standard defenses including lack of Article III standing as…
EFF to Tenth Circuit: Protest-Related Arrests Do Not Justify Dragnet Device and Digital Data Searches
Brendan Gilligan, Saira Hussain, and Jennifer Lynch of EFF write: The Constitution prohibits dragnet device searches, especially when those searches are designed to uncover political speech, EFF explained in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, challenges device and data seizures and searches…
Ex-DC police officer sentenced to prison for selling crash victims’ personal data
Samantha Gilstrap reports: A former officer with the Metropolitan Police Department was sentenced to over a year in prison on Wednesday in connection to a bribery scheme. Investigators say Vincent Forest, 36, sold crash victim’s confidential information for cash. On Jan. 11, Forrest was found guilty of conspiracy, bribery, and making false statements following a jury…