Privacy News & Issues
Tonya Riley reports: A Minnesota health system accused of using Meta Platforms Inc.’s Pixel tracking technology to profit off patient surveillance must face wiretapping claims, ruled a federal judge. United State District Judge Katherine M. Menendez denied on Thursday North Memorial Health Care’s motion to dismiss wiretapping claims under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and…
Kartikay Mehrotra reports: Meta Platforms Inc. failed to convince a federal appeals court to postpone the US Federal Trade Commission’s reexamination of alleged privacy breaches within its Facebook arm. The US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday that Meta “has not satisfied the stringent requirements” for an injunction pending appeal for any of…
Alice Miranda Ollstein reports: Anti-abortion activists and elected officials have a backup plan should the Supreme Court reject their arguments for nationwide restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone. In fact, they have several. The lawsuit that went before the high court Tuesday challenging federal regulation of abortion pills is just one piece of the movement’s…
Seen at Iberian Lawyer: The national authority for the protection of personal data has sufficient authority to order data deletion even if the data subject has not requested it. A ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union based in Luxembourg clarifies that the European Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data empowers…