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Uncertain Boundaries: How Courts and Regulators View the Sharing of Health-Related Article Titles

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Recent regulatory actions and court decisions highlight growing uncertainty over whether sharing article title data from webpages amounts to disclosure of sensitive health information under privacy laws....more

McDermott Will & Schulte

OCR Withdraws Appeal in AHA v. Becerra

On August 29, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) withdrew its appeal of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s June 20, 2024, decision in American...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

OCR Files Notice of Appeal in Online Tracking Technologies Case

On August 19, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) filed a notice of appeal of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s June 20, 2024, decision in American...more

Venable LLP

Federal Court Strikes Blow to HHS Guidance on “Online Tracking Technologies”

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Last week, a federal district court in Texas issued a decision declaring unlawful and vacating a central component of a guidance document (the Bulletin) from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil...more

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New HHS Guidance on Cookies

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On March 18, 2024, the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) within the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) updated prior guidance concerning the use of online tracking technologies, including cookies, by Covered...more

Amundsen Davis LLC

“Pixels” and “Cookies,” Charming Terms for Tracking Technology, Can Lead to Ugly Data Privacy Headaches

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Companies in all industries and of all sizes are evaluating sophisticated and useful technology for their websites and applica- tions (their “apps”) in an effort to enhance and develop their image or brand and to support...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Cookies and Online Tracking of Health Signals: An OCR Prescription for Potential Peril

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Online Tracking Technologies and HIPAA. In December 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a bulletin on the use of online tracking technologies (e.g., cookies or web...more

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The online health data ecosystem takes another regulatory hit

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Health companies cannot use online tracking technologies like other consumer organizations. This refrain, repeated frequently by regulators, litigants and the media in recent months, may now have found its clearest voice in...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

HIPAA and Cookies: A Potentially Dangerous Combination

Websites using data tracking and collection software risk potentially serious consequences under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly referred to as “HIPAA.” In a Bulletin issued December...more

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HIPAA Regulated Entities: Website or App Tracking Technologies, Pixels Can Create Significant Compliance and Litigation Risks

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Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) issued a bulletin with guidance concerning the use of online tracking technologies by covered entities and business associates...more

Carlton Fields

Facebook and HIPAA: Strange Bedfellows

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As a social media user, you may have experienced Facebook’s targeted advertising. Mere moments after searching for a specific item on Google or visiting another website, your Facebook ads reflect your recent browsing history....more

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