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Tea Dating App Breach Reveals Major Data Privacy Gaps in Rapidly Growing Platforms

HaystackID on 8/8/2025

In July 2025, a 4chan user posted a simple Python script. Within hours, thousands of women’s driver’s licenses, selfies, and intimate conversations were spreading across the dark corners of the internet. The source? An app...more

FTC’s Enforcement Action Against GoodRx Breathes New Life into Decade Old Regulation

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx on 2/27/2023

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) didn’t mince words. On September 2021, it called out the health app industry for failing to understand the agency’s Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) and for not disclosing its...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 2/16/2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...more

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 1/17/2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 1 (January 2023) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said a data breach at a Medicare subcontractor impacted the personally identifiable information and protected...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2022 #5

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/29/2022

CYBERSECURITY - State Department Offers $10M Reward for Information on Russian Officers Involved in Malicious Cyber Activities - The U.S. Department of State has announced a $10 million reward for “information leading to...more

Safeguards in New National Network Include Insurance, App Mandates, Cybersecurity Council

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 2/14/2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 2 (February, 2022) - The new national health information network calls for a number of privacy and security safeguards and standards that, in some instances, exceed what HIPAA covered...more

Hidden Threats of Exposing Your Phone Number

Womble Bond Dickinson on 11/19/2021

This week I read a worried headline claiming that, in a recent consumer data breach, the hackers had managed to access consumers’ telephone numbers. This was treated as an important and troubling revelation....more

FTC Warns Health Apps and Connected Device Companies to Comply with the Health Breach Notification Rule

King & Spalding on 11/2/2021

On September 15, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a Policy Statement instructing health app and connected device companies to comply with the Health Breach Notification Rule (“the Rule”). The Rule, codified...more

Health App Vendors Be Warned: You Could Be Subject to FTC's Health Breach Notification Rule

Stinson LLP on 10/13/2021

The surge in new health apps and connected devices, which only increased during the pandemic, continues to raise many legal and ethical questions. As a result, lawmakers have been scrambling to define the obligations...more

Privacy Update: FCC Seeks Public Comment on the Current and Future Regulation of the "Internet of Things"

ArentFox Schiff on 10/13/2021

FCC Seeks Public Comment on the Current and Future Regulation of the “Internet of Things” - The FCC is requesting public comment in a proceeding that will help determine the scope and nature of regulation of the “Internet of...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2021

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/3/2021

CYBERSECURITY - FBI Warns of Hive Ransomware Following Attack Against Hospital System - On August 25, 2021, the FBI issued a Flash Alert to warn companies, especially in the health care industry, about the proliferation...more

Jones Day Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update | Vol. 28

Jones Day on 8/10/2021

UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - President Biden Issues Cybersecurity Executive Order - On May 12, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order that placed new standards on the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2021 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/15/2021

CYBERSECURITY - Ubiquiti Notifies Customers of Breach - Ubiquiti, a manufacturer of products used for networks such as routers, webcams and mesh networks, announced this week that an unauthorized access to its systems...more

Financial Daily Dose 8.21.2020 | Top Story: Court Stays CA Gig-Worker Law; Uber and Lyft to Keep Operating in State During Appeal

Robins Kaplan LLP on 8/21/2020

A state appeals court in California has preempted Uber and Lyft’s threatened state-wide shutdown over a new state law ordering them to reclassify their drivers as employees by “allowing them to continue operating [under their...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2020 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/28/2020

Cyber-Attacks Against Maritime Industry Quadrupled in Last Few Months - A recent report released by the British Ports Association and Astaara, a risk management firm based in the U.K., concludes that since February of 2020,...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - April 2020

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 5/3/2020

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine Washington state's new facial recognition law, the U.K. Supreme Court's ruling that an employer is not liable for a data breach caused by a disgruntled...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2019 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/25/2019

Although Amazon and Google respond to reports of vulnerabilities in popular home smart assistants Alexa and Google Home, hackers continually work hard to exploit any vulnerabilities in order to listen to users’ every word to...more

FBI Warns of Sharp Increase in Ransomware Attacks in Certain Sectors

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/14/2019

The Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently issued a public service announcement warning private companies about the increasing numbers of ransomware attacks affecting private industry....more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2019 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/28/2019

Security researchers have warned municipalities repeatedly about how they are being targeted with ransomware, that they are at high risk, and the need to make data security a high priority. Please see full Publication blow...more

The WhatsApp Hack – Practice Good Phone Hygiene and Update Your Apps

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 5/20/2019

WhatsApp, the popular instant messaging app announced a hack and the exposure of a security flaw this week. The flaw injected malware onto users’ phones, potentially exposing their otherwise encrypted data and messages. ...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - May 2019 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 5/13/2019

Hotel chain Fillmore Hospitality, LLC is the latest target of a proposed class action complaint filed this week, alleging violation of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). We don’t usually discuss the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2018 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 7/16/2018

We have previously reported on the ongoing cybersecurity issues with St. Jude defibrillators [view related posts here, here, and here]. On June 29, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified the required firmware...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - May 2018 #5

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/5/2018

Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning t U.S. consumers that Russian hackers (dubbed Sofacy and a/k/a Fancy Brear and APT28, and believed to be backed by the Russian government) had compromised...more

In Principle: 10 Things Authorised Firms Need to Know for 2018 – The World of Financial Regulation as the UK Prepares to Exit the...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 1/25/2018

There is much for authorised firms to consider in the year ahead. Firms have been through the intensive period of the enactment of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), but must now step up their...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - December 2017 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 12/22/2017

Apple has pushed an update to iOS 11.2 to its users. Users should consider pushing any updates that are recommended by the manufacturer, as there is usually a reason behind the update, and many times it is to fix a...more

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