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Stay informed with our latest insights on privacy and technology trends, along with key updates from our firm.
Mental Health Data is For Sale
This week, let's consider banning the sale of mental health data in light of a new study published by Duke, and actions by the FTC against BetterHelp (for sharing mental health data with Facebook and others targeted advertisers) and Kochava (for selling sensitive geolocation information).
Bad Privacy Practices at GoodRx?
This week, let’s look at a new Consent Decree required by FTC and consider its prohibition of disclosure of health information for advertising purposes, along with the FTC’s expanding privacy enforcement and continued rumblings inside the Commission.
Today’s Health Crisis, Tomorrow’s Privacy Lessons
This week, we consider the benefits of preventing or controlling the spread of the COVID-19 virus against the cost to personal privacy, and ultimate threat to individual freedom.
Texas Privacy and Data Security Laws
This week, we compile various Texas statutes that directly address privacy and data security.
Is It Time to Regulate Scrubbed Data?
This week, we consider de-identification of data as a mechanism for mitigating privacy risk, and ask this question: Is it time to regulate scrubbed data too?