Khari Johnson reports: In November 2021, Facebook announced it would delete face recognition data extracted from images of more than 1 billion people and stop offering to automatically tag people in photos and videos. Luke Stark, an assistant professor at Western University, in Canada, told WIRED at the time that he considered the policy change a PR…
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Colorado Attorney General Releases Draft Colorado Privacy Act Rules
Lindsey Tonsager, Jayne Ponder, and Alexandra Scott of Covington and Burling write: On October 10, 2022 the draft rules implementing the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”) were officially published in the Colorado Register. Written comments on the draft rules are due by November 7, 2022. The CPA draft rules share some similarities with the draft rules set forth…
Google to Pay $85 Million to Settle Arizona Geolocation Tracking Privacy Suit
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On October 3, 2022, Google LLC (“Google”) agreed to pay the State of Arizona $85 million to settle a consumer privacy lawsuit that alleged the company surreptitiously collected consumers’ geolocation data on smartphones even after users disabled location tracking. Arizona’s lawsuit followed a 2018 Associated Press article that alleged Google continued…
Doctor Admits Criminal HIPAA Scheme for Wrongful Disclosure of Protected Patient Health Information to Pharmaceutical Sales Representative
CAMDEN, N.J. – A former physician with medical practices in New Jersey, New York, and Florida admitted wrongfully disclosing patients’ protected personal health information, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced today. Frank Alario, 65, of Delray Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty before Judge Robert B. Kugler to conspiring to wrongfully disclose patients’ individually identifiable…