Elizabeth G. Litten of Fox Rothschild has a commentary on a proposed FTC settlement announced this week. There will be a 30-day comment period on the proposed settlement, so if you read Litten’s commentary and agree with the concerns, you may wish to submit a comment on the proposed settlement. Note that two commissioners also…
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Should Amazon AWS’s termination of Parler’s contract make HIPAA-covered entities concerned?
One of my go-to HIPAA law resources is attorney Jeff Drummond. He and I often disagree on politics, but I will always consider what he says This week, I found myself seriously disagreeing with one of Jeff’s blog posts. Unless you’ve been living under a rock this week, you already know about the brouhaha when…
Guangdong authority orders Tencent, Xpeng, other tech firms to amend apps over cybersecurity concerns
Iris Deng reports: The communications authority in southern Guangdong province has cracked down on the operation of 209 apps, including seven run by internet giant Tencent Holdings and one from electric car maker Xpeng, over privacy and security concerns amid China’s renewed drive against misuse of consumer data. The Guangdong Communications Administration in November and…
Developer of Popular Women’s Fertility-Tracking App Settles FTC Allegations that It Misled Consumers About the Disclosure of their Health Data
The developer of a period and fertility-tracking app used by more than 100 million consumers has settled Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company shared the health information of users with outside data analytics providers after promising that such information would be kept private. The proposed settlement requires Flo Health, Inc. to, among other things, obtain an…