Adam Klasfeld reports: Prosecutors cannot use digital cameras seized from an accused U.S. Capitol rioter seen boasting on YouTube about “fighting cops and shit,” a federal judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, a Joe Biden appointee, was among the slate of judicial nominees with a legal background as public defender, as part of the 46th president’s…
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What can browser history inadvertently reveal about a person’s health?
Michele W. Berger One day a few years back, Penn emergency medicine physician Ari Friedman decided to see what would happen if he declined third-party cookies on a medical journal website. “I’d read enough about privacy and leaks and what was going on with the data that I wanted to turn them off,” says Friedman….
Don’t rely on a business associate agreement if the business associate is Iron Mountain (UPDATED)
Update of June 15: My tweets about the situation described below resulted in Iron Mountain’s Twitter team contacting their internal team, who called me. As of yesterday afternoon, the patient records that had supposedly been securely destroyed more than a year ago were finally securely destroyed. I was also told by customer service that the…
California Privacy Protection Agency Votes To Initiate Formal Rulemaking Process
Libbie Canter & Lindsey Tonsager of Covington and Burling write: During its June 8, 2022 board meeting, the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) voted to initiate the formal California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) rulemaking process. The draft rules are expected to be very similar to those previously published in advance of the Board meeting, although…