Leslie Shanklin, Jeff Warshafsky, Aaron Francis, and Anna W. Chan of Proskauer write: There has been a recent surge of privacy class action lawsuits under the Arizona Telephone, Utility, and Communication Service Records Act targeting the use of common email marketing analytics technologies. Defendants are asserting standard defenses including lack of Article III standing as…
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South Korea police launch probe into whether Telegram abets online sex crimes, Yonhap reports
Reuters reports: South Korean police have launched an investigation into Telegram that will look at whether the encrypted messaging app has been complicit in the distribution of sexually explicit deepfake content, Yonhap news agency said on Monday. Yonhap quoted the head of the National Office of Investigation. The office’s cyber investigation bureau declined to comment…
HHS drops appeal of AHA data-tracking lawsuit
Giles Bruce reports: HHS has dropped its appeal of a lawsuit from the American Hospital Association over the use of data trackers on hospital websites. The federal health agency had appealed a judge’s decision that HHS’ Office of Civil Rights could not prohibit hospitals and health systems from deploying so-called pixel tracking technology on their public-facing websites….
Privacy Protections of the Stored Communications Act Gutted by California Court
Stephanie Pell and Richard Salgado of the Lawfare Institute write: On July 23, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District issued a whopper of a decision that looks to upset decades’ long understandings of how users’ data is protected from disclosure by providers under the Stored Communications Act (SCA). It eviscerates the SCA’s prohibitions that prevent communication…