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Tracking Technologies
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Consumer Class Defense Blog
Is the Video Privacy Protection Act Losing its Allure?
This blog has been cross-posted on the Global Privacy Watch site. Anyone following trends in consumer class action litigation will know that consumer privacy was a primary focus of the…
Privacy World
2023 Privacy Compliance Year in Review
By Alan Friel, Kyle Fath
2023 was an eventful year for privacy legislation, regulation and regulatory enforcement. The compliance landscape continues to develop and evolve rapidly, making it difficult for covered businesses to keep up…
Inside Privacy
EDPB Issues Draft Guidelines on Technical Scope of ePrivacy Directive Rules for Storage and Access
By Nicholas Shepherd, Paul Maynard, Mark Young
On November 16, 2023, the European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) issued draft Guidelines 2/2023 on Technical Scope of Art. 5(3) of ePrivacy Directive (“Guidelines”). Article 5(3) is the provision that…
Health Law Rx
OCR and FTC Issue Warning to Hospital Systems and Telehealth Providers about Tracking Technologies
By Elizabeth F. Hodge, Jordan Cohen
On July 20, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced they were sending a joint letter…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
FTC and HHS Warn Hospitals and Telehealth Providers About Use of Tracking Technologies
On July 20, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued letters to hospitals and telehealth providers “about the privacy and security…
Eye On Privacy
Regulators Send Warning Letter to Hospitals and Telehealth Providers About Tracking Technology Use
By Julia Kadish, Carolyn Metnick
The FTC and OCR at HHS are continuing to scrutinize the use of tracking technologies that may reveal information about a person’s health or health status. Both agencies recently sent…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
HHS and FTC Send Joint Letter to 130 Hospital Systems, Telehealth Providers Re: Tracking Technologies
The Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Trade Commission have sent a joint letter to approximately 130 hospital systems and telehealth providers to emphasize the risks and…
Ad Law Access
The FTC is Not the Only One Tracking Your Use of Health Information
By Alysa Z. Hutnik, Lauri A. Mazzuchetti, Whitney M. Smith, Emily Clark, Sabrina Morelli
The FTC has made news recently with its recent enforcement activity regarding companies’ alleged disclosures of consumer health data, as detailed in our recent post FTC to Advertisers: We’re tracking…
Technology Law Dispatch
Cookies and international data transfers: Key takeaways from the EDPB 101 Task Force report
By Cynthia O’Donoghue, Dr. Andreas Splittgerber, Sven Schonhofen, Alicja Lysik
The EDPB 101 Task Force published a report summarizing its assessment on international data transfers in connection with the use of tracking and analytics cookies (Tracking Cookie). The report is…
Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
FTC Focuses on Pixel Tracking, and Not Just at Healthcare Companies
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently took enforcement action against digital healthcare companies for sharing user information vie third-party tracking pixels, which enable the collection of user data. At the…