Last month, the Federal Trade Commission’s newly launched Office of Technology published a blog post entitled “Lurking Beneath the Surface: Hidden Impacts of Pixel Tracking.” If you skim the post, you ...

If your company posts videos on its website and uses a Facebook tracking pixel in them to transmit data to Facebook for advertising purposes, your company could find itself on the receiving end of a ...

The FTC's enforcement action against GoodRx concerned alleged violations of the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) for unauthorized disclosures of sensitive personal health information for years ...

Every time you open an email, someone may be watching, because hidden within it could lie a tracking pixel—one of the most potent marketing tools today. When you open an email, it quietly pings the ...

There are countless ways we are tracked online. One of the lesser-known methods is the use of tracking pixels, also referred to as marketing pixels. Tracking pixels can be placed on websites but are ...

Healthcare startups are scrambling to reassess how their websites and apps are built, and how third parties may, inadvertently or not, be putting patients’ protected health information at risk. In ...

The FTC issued a deep dive on pixel tracking technology and how the tools can negatively impact healthcare and consumer data. Consumers may not realize that tracking pixels exist as they’re invisibly ...

Think about the Christmas shopping you’ve been doing online – have ads for those same items been following you around the internet? It’s not a coincidence: You’re being tracked! Not by a virus or ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — When you go online, whether from your phone, laptop or tablet, many times you’re being watched. A fact that many online users we spoke with say is becoming the norm. “It’s ...

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The Federal Trade Commission joined the U.S. Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights this week in reminding healthcare organizations about their responsibilities for third-party disclosures ...