The HIPAA Journal reports cycle management firm MedData agreed to pay USD7 million to settle a class-action lawsuit related to a data breach. The lawsuit involved an incident where the data of 136,000 people was exposed after an employee allegedly uploaded the information to a public-facing website....

The U.S. Senate opened debate on reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act with a 67-32 procedural vote, CNN reports. It is unclear if the Senate will formally pass the House bill for renewing FISA before Section 702 sunsets 19 April. Bipartisan opposition to renew ...

The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office found Google's proposed third-party cookie replacement, the Privacy Sandbox, needs to better protect users' personal data, according to ICO draft documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal. A review of the the ICO report found, as presently constituted, ...

Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, and Germany's Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information will meet for a two-day summit 19-20 April to discuss age verification systems, artificial intelligence and pay-or-consent models.Full story...

Electronic Frontier Federation Staff Attorney Mario Trujillo urged U.S. Congress to allow for a private right of action, limit data sharing with the government and not preempt states from having stronger privacy laws under the proposed American Privacy Rights Act. He said the bill's focus on online ...