Jennifer Calfas and Laura Kusisto report: Texas is suing a New York-based doctor for allegedly prescribing abortion pills through telemedicine to a patient from the Lone Star state. The lawsuit is believed to be the first challenge to laws designed to shield doctors in states with abortion protections from legal challenges elsewhere. Texas Attorney General Ken…
GoodRx Agrees to Pay $25 Million Settlement for Privacy Violations
GoodRx settled FTC charges for $1.5 million, but it wasn’t so lucky with a class action lawsuit. Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: The telehealth and prescription drug discount provider, GoodRx, recently agreed to pay $25 million to settle class action claims originating from the company’s unauthorized disclosure of consumers’ personal health information, according to recent filings…
Health Privacy Developments to Watch in 2025
Libbie Canter & Elizabeth Brim of Covington and Burling write: 2024 was an incredibly busy year for health privacy. As the year draws to a close and we look ahead to 2025, we share several areas that we are watching in the coming year, which we expect to be similarly busy with federal- and state-level…
EPIC, Coalition Urge EU Council to Reconsider Proposals That Would Undermine Encryption
From the good folks at EPIC: EPIC, along with 54 other civil society organizations, industry, and professional associations, wrote a letter to the European Union’s Justice and Home Affairs Council, warning them of the dangers of undermining encryption for further law enforcement access to data. The High-Level Group on Access to Data for Effective Law Enforcement, also…