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Tracking Technologies
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Privacy and Cybersecurity
FTC’s One-Two Punch on Data Tracking and Health Privacy
By Ryan Blaney
On March 2, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it had reached a $7.8 million settlement with mental health and online counseling platform, BetterHelp, Inc. (“BetterHelp”). The FTC alleged that BetterHelp shared …
Legal Health Information Exchange
Is Your Organization Ready for an OCR HIPAA Compliance Review re: Use of Online Tracking Technology?
A HIPAA BAA must be in place for a regulated entity to use online tracking technologies to collect IIHI from its website, mobile apps, social media page(s) for health care…
Privacy World
OCR Joins Chorus of Regulators Warning About Health Data Tracking Technology
By Julia Jacobson, Gicel Tomimbang
Key Takeaway: Organizations must conduct a fact-based analysis to determine whether health data collection and tracking technology deployed on their websites and mobile apps complies with the federal Health Insurance…
Triage Health Law
OCR Joins Chorus of Regulators Warning About Health Data Tracking Technology
By Julia Jacobson, Gicel Tomimbang
Key Takeaway: Organizations must conduct a fact-based analysis to determine whether health data collection and tracking technology deployed on their websites and mobile apps complies with the federal Health Insurance…
Health Industry Washington Watch
HHS OCR Issues Bulletin on HIPAA Compliance for Tracking Technologies
By Vicki Tankle, Angela Matney, Wendy Choi
The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued a bulletin highlighting the application of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act…
Rivkin Rounds
OCR Issues Warning Bulletin on Website and App Tracking Technologies
On December 1, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a Bulletin entitled ”Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and…
Data Counsel
OCR Guidance on Use of Tracking Technologies Warrants Review of Website Tech
By Aleksandra Vold, Lynn Sessions, Stefanie Ferrari
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued guidance regarding covered entities’ and business associates’ use of tracking technologies (the Guidance). As discussed in…
Healthcare Law Blog
OCR Releases Guidance on Use of Tracking Technologies
By Julia Kadish
Most companies operating websites and mobile apps use some form of tracking technologies on these digital properties. While these types of technologies have been used for some time and serve…
Security, Privacy and the Law
Is the Video Privacy Protection Act a New Litigation Weapon for Consumers?
By Adam Aguirre
On September 19, 2022, a Massachusetts federal District Court denied Boston Globe Media Partners LLC’s motion to dismiss a consumer class action suit against it. This case is one of…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Oracle Accused of Invading Privacy with Tracking Technologies
A new class action lawsuit was filed in federal court in California against Oracle America, Inc., alleging that it A new class action lawsuit was filed in federal court in…