Latest Data Privacy Headlines
All the headlines from our Data Privacy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Washington Physicians’ Insurer Issues Notice of Data Privacy Incident
Jul 27 2023 // Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company reported a security incident affecting the personal information for some third-party contractors and the health information for some of its insureds’ patients. “Although we...
Be Kind, Rewind: How a Blockbuster-Era Law Is Still Being Used in Data Privacy Disputes
Jul 5 2023 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv A 1988 law regarding video rentals is still affecting the legal, and even the insurance and technology landscape, today. The Video Privacy Protection Act was enacted in 1988 after judge and...
Texas Medical Liability Trust Reports Data Privacy Event
Mar 23 2023 // Texas Medical Liability Trust (TMLT) provided notice that the company and its affiliates may have been affected by a recent data privacy event. On Oct. 12, 2022, TMLT identified suspicious activity within its environment...
China Eases Deadline Pressure for Multinationals’ Compliance With Data Security Rules
Mar 2 2023 // Chinese regulators have eased some deadline pressure on multinational companies struggling to comply with new rules requiring them to seek approval to export user data, according to lawyers advising clients on the...
China Urges State-Owned Firms to Drop Big 4 Auditors Over Data Security Concerns
Feb 23 2023 // Chinese authorities have urged state-owned firms to phase out using the four biggest international accounting firms, signaling continued concerns about data security even after Beijing reached a landmark deal to allow US...
Facebook Hit With $1 Million Fine Tied to User-Privacy Lawsuit
Feb 10 2023 // Facebook and its outside law firm were ordered to pay almost $1 million in sanctions for deceitfully denying that it shared users’ private information with third parties without permission. The fine is “loose...
Google Paying Indiana $20M to Resolve Privacy Suit
Jan 23 2023 // Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state’s lawsuit against the technology giant over allegedly deceptive location tracking practices, state Attorney General Todd Rokita announced. Rokitas filed a...
Washington Bill Would Force Period Tracking Apps to Follow Privacy Laws
Jan 18 2023 // When the Supreme Court last June stripped away constitutional protections for abortion, concerns grew over the use of period tracking apps because they aren’t protected by federal privacy laws. Privacy experts have...
Google Paying Indiana $20M to Resolve Privacy Suit
Jan 3 2023 // Google will pay Indiana $20 million to resolve the state’s lawsuit against the technology giant over allegedly deceptive location tracking practices, state Attorney General Todd Rokita announced. Rokitas filed a...
Google, YouTube Content Providers Must Face U.S. Children’s Privacy Lawsuit
Dec 29 2022 // A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit accusing Alphabet Inc’s Google and several other companies of violating the privacy of children under age 13 by tracking their YouTube activity without parental...
Google Defeats One Suit Over Chrome Data Privacy Practices
Dec 14 2022 // Alphabet Inc.’s Google defeated a privacy lawsuit by consumers who accused the company of snooping on them even after they opted out of sharing their web activity. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers on Monday...
U.S. Consumers Value Data Privacy Over Savings in Home, Auto Insurance: Policygenius
Oct 6 2022 // Despite inflation and rising costs, most Americans would rather pay more for insurance coverage than use data-monitoring devices, according to an annual survey from Policygenius. The survey found that 68% of U.S. consumers...
Australia Plans to Toughen Privacy Rules After Massive Cyber Attack on Optus
Sep 26 2022 // Australia plans to toughen privacy rules to force companies to notify banks faster when they experience cyber attacks, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday, after hackers targeted the country’s...
Maine Privacy Law Survives Challenge by Internet Service Providers
Sep 8 2022 // One of the strictest internet privacy laws in the United States has withstood a legal challenge, as a group of telecommunication providers has dropped its bid to overturn the Maine standard. Maine created one of the...
Cosmetics Maker Sephora Settles Customer Data Privacy Suit in California
Aug 26 2022 // Sephora Inc., one of the world’s largest cosmetics retailers, has settled a lawsuit claiming that the company sold customer information without proper notice in violation of the California’s landmark consumer...
How the American Data Privacy and Protection Act Will Increase Costs
Jul 18 2022 // There are many sectors of the U.S. economy that are not subject to rigorous privacy regulations. The insurance industry is not one of them. Our industry has a long history of protecting the privacy interests of its...
Connecticut Gov. Lamont Signs Consumer Data Privacy Law
Jun 22 2022 // Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has signed into law Public Act 22-15, which provides consumers with greater ability to safeguard their personal data that is collected by online companies. Most notably, the law requires...
Insurance 101: Everything You Wanted to Know About HIPAA But Were Afraid to Ask
Jun 8 2022 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) may be one of the most commonly referenced health insurance laws, not just by insurance...
New York Vaccine Privacy Bill Sent to Gov. Hochul
Jun 7 2022 // Privacy advocates are urging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to affix her signature on a bill that would protect sensitive information gathered from people being vaccinated against COVID-19. Advocates say the unfettered sharing...
Twitter Will Pay $150M to Settle With U.S. Over Data Privacy Violations
May 26 2022 // Twitter Inc. has agreed to pay $150 million to settle allegations it misused private information, like phone numbers, to target advertising after telling users the information would be used for security reasons, according...
