Mary Anne Pazanowski reports: Health-care providers must turn over patients’ names and contact information to Washington in the state’s consumer fraud litigation. Neither the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act nor its state equivalent protected the information from compelled disclosure in a civil case because there’s already a protective order in place, and the…
Category: Laws
Voter List Access, Maine Privacy Law Clash at First Circuit
Allie Reed reports: Maine’s privacy law protecting voters’ personal information is in question after a panel of First Circuit judges suggested a conservative election law firm has standing to sue the secretary of state. The Public Interest Legal Foundation is suing Maine over its law preventing people who obtain personal information from its central voter registration system…
UK Information Commissioner issues preliminary enforcement notice against Snap
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued Snap, Inc and Snap Group Limited (Snap) with a preliminary enforcement notice over potential failure to properly assess the privacy risks posed by Snap’s generative AI chatbot ‘My AI’. The preliminary notice sets out the steps which the Commissioner may require, subject to Snap’s representations on the preliminary…
Is Your State’s Child Safety Law Unconstitutional? Try Comprehensive Data Privacy Instead
Mario Trujillo and Adam Schwartz write: Comprehensive data privacy legislation is the best way to hold tech companies accountable in our surveillance age, including for harm they do to chi ldren. Well-written privacy legislation has the added benefit of being constitutional—unlike the flurry of laws that restrict content behind age verification requirements that courts have…