Christopher Brown reports: Google LLC defeated a proposed class action alleging it retained information about users’ video-watching histories in violation of video-privacy laws in New York and Minnesota. Neither of the laws on which the plaintiffs based their claims—the New York Video Consumer Privacy Act and the Minnesota Video Privacy Law—contained a private right of…
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Going Beyond HIPAA – Washington Health Privacy Law Enacted: Broad Reach, Amorphous Scope, Big Litigation Risk
Jonathan Mollod and Ryan P. Blaney of Proskauer write: Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed multiple healthcare privacy-related bills, including the enactment of Washington’s “My Health My Data Act” (House Bill 1155) (or the “Act” or MHMDA”), which bolsters privacy protections around the collecting, sharing and selling of “consumer health data.” In brief, the MHMDA: (1)…
Largest US Crypto Exchange Coinbase Faces Lawsuit Over Illegal Customer Biometrics Collection
APB reports: According to a proposed class-action lawsuit, Coinbase Inc., the largest crypto exchange in the US by trading volume, has been illegally collecting face templates and fingerprints of its customers, which violates the biometric privacy law in Illinois. As per a Bloomberg report, the suit, which was filed in federal court in San Francisco,…
The first “wrongful death” case for helping a friend get an abortion
Mary Tuma reports “Your help means the world to me,” a grateful Brittni Silva texted her best friends, Jackie Noyola and Amy Carpenter, last July. “I’m so lucky to have y’all. Really.” A month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Houston mother of two experienced an unplanned pregnancy with her now…