Consumer Privacy
Electronic Frontier Foundation and American Civil Liberties Union gain access to Los Angeles license plate data in settlement
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (“EFF”) and the American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) have ended six years of litigation with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Los Angeles Police Department over the automated collection of license plate data.—Jenny L. Holmes
Health Care & HIPAA
New York law prohibits first responders from selling patient data for marketing purposes
New York ambulance service providers and advanced life support first response service providers may not sell or disclose identifiable patient data to market their businesses.—Valerie Breslin Montague