Category: Privacy

Healthcare Privacy US Laws

Washington’s My Health My Data

A quick read of Washington’s My Health My Data Backdrop: Enacted in reaction to the US Supreme Court’s decision overturning a federal right to abortion. Guarantees Washington residents some of the broadest health information privacy protections in the nation. Tl;dr: The law prohibits covered entities from collecting or selling health data that can be tied […]

Privacy Session Replay Tracking Tech US Laws

US Courts on Emerging Privacy Tech- Session Replay, Pixels, Chatbots – Series 1

Chat Wiretapping Case Case 1 In the first, the plaintiff alleged the messages were first routed through the third-party’s server to “analyze and collect customer support-agent interactions in real-time” and that the third-party’s parent (a well-known social media company) identified “user interests” by monitoring a collection of offsite user activity and generated revenue by selling […]

FTC Privacy US Laws

FTC Guidance in the Avast Case: Selling and Collecting Data Deceptively!

– The #FTC found that Avast anonymization measures were insufficient to prevent re-identification. Even when contracts contained prohibitions on re-identification, the language allowed customers to join their first-party data to the data purchased from Avast. – FTC has confirmed that anonymized has a concrete technical definition consistent with the de-identified and anonymized data exemptions in state & […]

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