Samantha Cole reports: A new study out of the University of Toronto, published in The BMJ on Wednesday, highlights privacy issues around health apps by examining how medicine management apps share personal user data. The researchers found that most of the apps they tested shared sensitive information like medical history and demographics with third parties….
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Happy First Day of Spring! Ohio Insurance Law Effective Today
Amber Thomson, Liisa Thomas, Elfin Noce, and Kari Rollins of SheppardMullin write: Ohio recently followed South Carolina as the second state to adopt cybersecurity legislation modeled after the NAIC’s Insurance Data Security Model Law. The Ohio law, Senate Bill 273, applies to insurers authorized to do business in Ohio and goes into effect today, March…
European Government Websites Are Delivering Tracking Cookies to Visitors
Kevin Townsend reports: Governments within the European Union appear to be flouting their own GDPR laws. Many official government websites are harboring and delivering tracking cookies from the ad tech industry even though they don’t rely on any advertising income. Eighty-nine percent of 184,683 pages delivered tracking cookies. Twenty-five of the 28 member states have…
High Court Blocks Google Settlement on Standing Issue
Alexandra Jones reports: A privacy class action that Google settled for $8.5 million faced a Supreme Court clamp-down Wednesday, with the justices ruling 8-1 that there are too many questions about standing to move forward. Google established the fund in 2015 to resolve claims that it allowed third-party websites to access users’ search terms without…