Skye Witley reports: After nearly a year navigating the Biden administration’s efforts to push heath-care providers away from tracking technology that can associate website visitors with specific medical conditions, hospital associations alleged government agencies are still using those same tools in violation of the guidance. A quartet of hospital associations are challenging a December 2022 US Health…
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Wrong legal interpretation in the health sector
Kevin Aquilina, Professor of Law, Faculty of Laws at the University of Malta writes about a decision in Malta: An interesting decree delivered by the Court of Magistrates as a Court of Criminal Inquiry by Magistrate Dr Marse-Ann Farrugia on 30 August 2023 is that in the names of The Republic of Malta v. Abner George…
Court: No reasonable expectation of privacy in defendant’s social media accounts holding child porn
Over on FourthAmendment.com, John Wesley Hall notes this case in the Northern District of New York: In a child porn case, defendant can’t show a reasonable expectation of privacy in images in his social media account. “For example, Defendant has not attested as to how he used the social media accounts, what if any privacy…
What Can We Learn From Recent Wiretapping Lawsuits?
Fox Rothschild LLP & Odia Kagan write: Here is what we can learn from class action lawsuits filed in the last few days under the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act, and other wiretapping-like causes of action. If you are going to record calls or chats, you…