Jake Holland reports: A senior living home chain must face claims it violated the Biometric Information Privacy Act after an Illinois federal judge found the plaintiff had properly stated a claim under the law. Plaintiff Sharon Brandenberg’s BIPA claims against Meridian Senior Living LLC aren’t preempted or time-barred, so the lawsuit may proceed, Judge Sue E….
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When the FBI seizes your messages from Big Tech, you may not know it for years
Jay Greene and Drew Harwell recently reported: At first, Ryan Lackey thought the email was a scam. It arrived one morning in March, bearing news that Facebook had received an order from the Federal Bureau of Investigation to turn over data from personal accounts Lackey uses to chat with friends and exchange cat photos. Even…
OCR Issues Guidance on HIPAA, COVID-19 Vaccinations, and the Workplace
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance to help the public understand when the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy Rule applies to disclosures and requests for information about whether a person has received a COVID-19 vaccine. The guidance reminds the…
FPF’s 2020 Student Privacy Pledge: New Pledge, Similar Problems
EFF legal intern Rob Ferrari was the lead author of this post by Sophia Cope, Jason Kelley, and Bill Budington: A new school year has started, the second one since the pandemic began. With our education system becoming increasingly reliant on the use of technology (“edtech”), especially for remote learning during the pandemic, protecting student privacy is more…