privacy

If you use a smart speaker, a search engine or social media – and who doesn’t? – a new state privacy law goes into effect soon.

For years the Florida High School Athletic Association required students to disclose detailed health information in order to play on a team. After outcry from parents, Palm Beach County school board members are asking the FHSAA to revise their procedures.

In what's believed to be the first case of its kind, a student argued that Cleveland State University violated his Fourth Amendment rights when he complied with a webcam recording of his exam space.

Most states do not currently grant anonymity to lottery winners. Some lawmakers have tried to change that in recent years out of growing privacy and safety concerns.

Some online therapy companies are facing scrutiny for how they handle user data. Experts weigh in on what patients can do to keep their data safer when using these types of services.

When law enforcement requests it, Google usually hands over location and search data collected through its smartphone apps. Will that now be used against people seeking abortions in some states?

The appeal keeps the law in effect — for now. The appeal was expected following Judge John Cooper's ruling, in which he said the law violated the state constitution's privacy protections.

Meta is taking steps to give parents and guardians more oversight of their teens' activities on Instagram and Quest — implementing changes it had announced in recent months.

A South Florida Jewish congregation has challenged a new state law that blocks abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, contending the measure violates privacy and religious freedom rights.

Health data can be shockingly available. A group of nonprofits and corporations is proposing to patch up the holes in health apps, but many of the biggest companies didn’t participate in the proposal’s creation.

The clause can be found in Section 23 of the state constitution, It reads, in part: “Every natural person has the right to be let alone and free from governmental intrusion into the person’s private life."

Law professor Kim Mutcherson said that while states are bound by HIPAA laws, individuals are not. This means that abortion "bounty hunters" could help punish people who seek abortions in other states.