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….
Category: Online
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…
New York Attorney General Opens Public Consultation on Child Online Safety Laws
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On August 1, 2024, the Office of the New York State Attorney General (“OAG”) released two Advanced Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPRM”) for the SAFE for Kids Act and the Child Data Protection Act (the “Acts”). The OAG began the rulemaking pursuant to a mandate from the New York legislature to issue regulations…
Without your consent, X now uses your data to train grok: change your settings now!
Today’s Risky Biz News points out a X (Twitter) privacy issue. Your data can now be used by default to train grok (AI), and they haven’t even announced this change. A user sounded the alarm: Twitter just activated a setting by default for everyone that gives them the right to use your data to train…