Tracking Pixel News Today

Novant Health to pay $6.6 million for breaching HIPAA standards with tracking pixel on MyChart portal, sharing personal info with tech companies.

Editor’s Note: The FTC continues to crack down on privacy and cybersecurity, including issuing a new warning to tax preparation companies and entering into a consent decree with...

A Virginia man sued Chick-fil-A Sunday, making the company the sixth to be sued in federal court in San Francisco in the last 35 days for alleged violations of an obscure federal statute.

Latest privacy law weaponized in consumer class actions is Video Privacy Protection Act VPPA, Reagan- era law passed when Judge Robert Bork’s video rental history was leaked to press. VPPA imposes liability on video rental companies when disclosing identifiable information.

That he came upon this work product, used in targeting voters for the ted cruz pac, for texas governor greg abbott, a super pac for john bolton, along with several different campaigns supporting the uks brexit referendum. >> ted cruzs actual personal e-mail is in here. >> reporter: he said it was out in the open until aggregate i.q. was notified. the company took just 11 minutes to take it down. what was there? he says a window into the type of campaigning that he says seeks to radicalize voters...

E-mail is in here. >> reporter: he said it was out in the open until aggregate i.q. was notified. the company took just 11 minutes to take it down. what was there? he says a window into the type of campaigning that he says seeks to radicalize voters by changing how individuals receive political messages. >> lets say you get an e-mail from your uncle that loves donald trump, and theres a hidden tracking pixel in there, that as soon as your e-mail client loads that image of the tracking pixel, the...