There are so many webinars each week that I generally don’t sign up for them or post links to them, but this one really caught my eye because there have been so many recent changes at the state level. The New Breed of State Health Privacy Laws Thursday, July 27, 2023 at 2 PM ET…
Securly Sued Over Surveillance of Students on School Chromebooks
Christopher Brown reports: Securly Inc. collected and disclosed the geolocation data and video-watching histories of grade school students in violation of California privacy laws and the federal Video Privacy Protection Act, a new proposed federal class action said. Sheri Bate and Azucena Mejia alleged that Securly, a provider of tracking software to school systems for…
Instagram agrees to pay $68.5 million in Illiniois biometric privacy settlement
Talia Soglin reports: Millions of Illinois Instagram users may be eligible for a cut of a new $68.5 million class-action biometric privacy settlement. The lawsuit alleges facial recognition technology used on the app until November 2021 violated Illinois’ biometric privacy law, which is considered the strictest in the nation. Any person who used Instagram while…
DSIR Deeper Dive: A New Wave of Privacy Class Actions Targets Hospital Website Analytics Tools
Melissa Bilancini and Alexander Vitruk of BakerHostetler write: … Since June 2022, over 100 Hospital Website Pixel Cases have been filed against hospitals in federal and state courts around the country. Despite the growing number of cases, there is limited precedent regarding potential liability. None of the cases have gone to trial, and we are…