Skye Witley reports: Congressional scrutiny of taxpayers’ data privacy has spawned the latest debate over the use of online trackers created by tech companies like Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms, Inc., increasing the risk of litigation for businesses that deploy them. Hundreds of thousands of websites are embedded with what’s known as “pixel” technology, according to a…
Electronic Health Records Vendor NextGen Healthcare Inc. to Pay $31 Million to Settle False Claims Act Allegations
From the Department of Justice on July 14: NextGen Healthcare Inc. (NextGen), an electronic health record (EHR) technology vendor, has agreed to pay $31 million to resolve allegations that NextGen violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by misrepresenting the capabilities of certain versions of its EHR software and providing unlawful remuneration to its users to…
The Brazilian Data Protection Authority has published its first sanction under the General Data Protection Law
Isabel da Costa Carvalho, Lizandra Baptista, and Julio Alves of Hogan Lovells write: On July 6, 2023, the Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published an order imposing the first fine for breaches of the Brazilian General Data Protection Law (LGPD). The fine, totaling BRL 14,400 (around USD 3,000), was issued to a small-sized telemarketing…
Only a handful of hackers are responsible for all email extortion attacks
Lewis Maddison reports: A remarkably small number of cybercriminals are reportedly responsible for all the world’s email extortion attempts, new research has claimed. Security firm Barracuda Networks, in partnership with Columbia University, looked at over 300,000 emails in a one-year period that the company’s AI detectors had flagged as extortion attacks, and found that the…