Joseph Duball reports: The rally for heightened U.S. enforcement against so-called “dark patterns” pushed forward Monday with a group of state attorneys general filing or preparing to file lawsuits over alleged dark patterns linked to Google’s location data practices. Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine announced he and attorneys general from Indiana, Texas and Washington State were…
Category: Online
IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access
Brian Krebs reports: If you created an online account to manage your tax records with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), those login credentials will cease to work later this year. The agency says that by the summer of 2022, the only way to log in to irs.gov will be through ID.me, an online identity verification service that…
German Regulators Publish Cookie Guidance
Ulrike Elteste of Covington and Burling writes: On 22 December 2021, the conference of German data protection supervisory authorities (“DSK”) published its Guidance for Providers of Telemedia Services (Orientierungshilfe für Anbieter von Telemedien). Particularly relevant for providers of websites and mobile applications, the Guidance is largely devoted to the “cookie provision” of the German Telecommunication and Telemedia…
“Big Tech’s Brazen HIPAA Violations Are Unethical, Immoral, and Legally Actionable”
Dr. David Lenihan has an OpEd on CPO that has me shaking my head “no.” He writes, in part: While one might think that U.S. doctors, pharmacies, hospitals, insurers, medical service providers, and healthcare/wellness facilities are the primary entities that could potentially leak, share, or exploit private patient data, the truth is that the most…