Hillel Aron reports: A California appeals court revived a lawsuit Tuesday filed by two UC Irvine professors challenging the Orange County district attorney’s controversial program which takes DNA samples from people charged with misdemeanors as part of plea agreements. “Due to its complexity, a significant number of alleged misdemeanants will likely be unaware of the…
Colorado Supreme Court hears first-of-its-kind challenge to police’s use of Google search terms to ID murder suspects
Shelly Bradbury reports: The Colorado Supreme Court on Thursday grappled with privacy and freedom of speech concerns as the justices heard a legal challenge to a controversial new law enforcement technique that Denver police used to identify the three teenagers accused of killing five people in a house fire three years ago. The groundbreaking legal…
Google Beats Class Action Over Retention of Video-Viewing Info
Christopher Brown reports: Google LLC defeated a proposed class action alleging it retained information about users’ video-watching histories in violation of video-privacy laws in New York and Minnesota. Neither of the laws on which the plaintiffs based their claims—the New York Video Consumer Privacy Act and the Minnesota Video Privacy Law—contained a private right of…
Going Beyond HIPAA – Washington Health Privacy Law Enacted: Broad Reach, Amorphous Scope, Big Litigation Risk
Jonathan Mollod and Ryan P. Blaney of Proskauer write: Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed multiple healthcare privacy-related bills, including the enactment of Washington’s “My Health My Data Act” (House Bill 1155) (or the “Act” or MHMDA”), which bolsters privacy protections around the collecting, sharing and selling of “consumer health data.” In brief, the MHMDA: (1)…