UPDATE: Aug. 30, 2024: The HHS is ending its plans to overturn a lawsuit that found the agency’s guidance on online tracking technologies had overstepped its authority, according to a filing in the ...

In December 2022, the Office of Civil Rights, responsible for enforcing HIPAA laws in the United States, released new guidelines on the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities.

This past June, a John Doe plaintiff who was a patient at Baltimore-based Medstar Health System filed a class-action complaint against Meta Platforms in the U.S. District Court for the Northern ...

QUESTION: What exactly does turning on the “Do Not Track” in my browser actually do?ANSWER: It’s no secret that we’re all being tracked relentlessly online, so the “Do Not Track” setting in your ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. Republished on February 8th with new analysis into Google’s tracking ...