Reuters reports: Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms will be fined one million crowns ($100,000) per day over privacy breaches unless it takes remedial action, Norway’s data protection authority said on Monday, in a move that could have wider European implications. Regulator Datatilsynet said it would charge the fine every day from August 4 until…
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Taxpayer Privacy Drives New Focus on Meta, Google Data Tracking
Skye Witley reports: Congressional scrutiny of taxpayers’ data privacy has spawned the latest debate over the use of online trackers created by tech companies like Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms, Inc., increasing the risk of litigation for businesses that deploy them. Hundreds of thousands of websites are embedded with what’s known as “pixel” technology, according to a…
Electronic Health Records Vendor NextGen Healthcare Inc. to Pay $31 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
From the Department of Justice on July 14: NextGen Healthcare Inc. (NextGen), an electronic health record (EHR) technology vendor, has agreed to pay $31 million to resolve allegations that NextGen violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by misrepresenting the capabilities of certain versions of its EHR software and providing unlawful remuneration to its users to…
Even the Government Thinks It Should Stop Buying Corporate Surveillance Data
Intern Nicholas Wilson at EFF was the primary author of this post by Andrew Crocker: U.S. government intelligence agencies are buying data about us. The danger to our civil liberties is so extreme that even the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said things have gone too far in a detailed report released in June….