The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week announced a significant update to the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR). This update aims to strengthen protections for consumers' health data in the digital age.
The FCC has fined the four major U.S. wireless carriers for failing to protect and selling customers' sensitive location-based data.
The FCC has fined three major mobile carriers almost $200 Million after illegally sharing user location data.
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The United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today announced [PDF] that it has fined AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint/T-Mobile $196 million collectively for illegally selling access to customer location information without consent. Sprint and T-Mobile (now merged into T-Mobile) have been fined $12 million and $80 million, respectively. Verizon has been fined almost $47 million, and AT&T has been fined more than $57 million. The FCC first began investigating the four major U.S....
Health insurance giant Kaiser Permanente apologized to 13.4 million of its members that some of their search information may have been inadvertently transmitted to Google, other search engines and media platforms. The Oakland-based company reported that "certain online technologies" that were previously installed on Kaiser Permanente websites and apps were transmitting information such as medical terms that members searched on the company website to Google, Microsoft Bing, and X, the social...
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