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Litigation Grows Around Website Technologies, With Focus on Sensitive Data

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Data privacy-related lawsuits have skyrocketed in recent years. Federal courts saw over 900 data privacy dockets in 2020 – but witnessed a surge to 1,767 dockets in 2023. At the halfway point in 2024, federal court data...more

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Amidst Legal Fight, HHS Revises Online Tracking Guidance

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On March 18, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued revised guidance on the use of tracking technologies by HIPAA-covered entities and business associates....more

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Class Action Year in Review: Biometric Privacy

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2023 was another eventful year for class action litigation under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The Illinois Supreme Court issued two long-awaited decisions, holding that BIPA claims are subject to a...more

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Health Care Workers Engaged in Treatment, Payment, or Operations Excluded by BIPA

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As previously noted, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has invited a great deal of litigation, often resulting in interpretations favorable toward plaintiffs. As a result, we advise employers who use...more

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Illinois Supreme Court Rules That Health Care Worker Finger Scans Are Exempt From BIPA

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On November 30, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) does not apply to health care workers whose fingerprints are collected, stored, and used to access medication and...more

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BIPA Excludes Health Care Workers Engaged in Treatment, Payment, or Operations

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As previously noted, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has invited a great deal of litigation, often resulting in interpretations favorable toward plaintiffs. As a result, we advise employers who use...more

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Illinois Supreme Court: Finger-Scan Information Collected by Healthcare Providers to Access Medications Is Exempt From BIPA...

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On November 30, 2023, the Illinois Supreme Court unanimously held in Mosby et al. v. The Ingalls Memorial Hospital et al. that when biometrics of healthcare employees are collected in the course of providing medical services,...more

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A Big Win For BIPA's Health Care Exclusion

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On November 30, 2023, in a unanimous decision, the Illinois Supreme Court issued its decision in the consolidated cases Mosby v. Ingalls Memorial Hospital, et al., and Mazya v. Northwestern Memorial Health Care, No 2023 IL...more

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U.S. Senator requests information on ways to improve privacy protections of health data

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Adding to the growing trend of policymakers interested in regulating health and wellness data, last week U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy requested stakeholder feedback to help identify solutions to modernize HIPAA and ensure all...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Diving into the Washington My Health My Data Act - Part Three: Broad Scope of Consumer Health Data

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This is Part Three in a series of legal updates on the Washington My Health My Data Act (“WMHMDA”) where Quarles continues its deep dive into the various factors and intricacies of WMHMDA that are creating tidal waves in the...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Client Alert: Illinois’s Biometric Law (BIPA) Reminds Us Again of Privacy and Security Vendor Risks

Synopsis: While certain industries have been able to navigate the explosion of privacy laws in recent times through express statutory exemptions or exceptions (often due to other regulatory regimes being in place, such as the...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - V 4, Issue 2, February 2023

Illinois Supreme Court Allows Massive Damages in Biometric Privacy Cases - “The case involves Ohio-based fast-food company White Castle.” Why this is important: Illinois has the strictest biometric privacy law in the...more

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Thirty-Three State Attorneys General Show Support for FTC’s Proposed Crackdown on “Commercial Surveillance”

On August 22, 2022, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) indicated through the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking its intent to limit commercial surveillance – the common corporate practice of collecting, analyzing, and...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2018 #3

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Verizon's Protected Health Information Data Breach Report Concludes that Insiders Are Greatest Threat to Health Care Entities - Verizon recently issued its Protected Health Information Data Breach Report, which is always...more

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

“My, what beautiful eyes you have . . .” – Biometric Data and Privacy

Biometric data – obviously not in just the movies anymore. It is alive, well, and increasingly being used in our everyday society. But, on September 23, 2015, when the Office of Personnel Management revealed that fingerprint...more

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