ABC News reports: NT Health has issued a ban on smart glasses at all of its clinical sites, as part of an internal department review into its privacy policies prompted by a breach at Royal Darwin Hospital earlier this month. The breach involved a medical observer, Dr Neda Mogharehabed, who was visiting Royal Darwin Hospital...

Bruce Armon, Evan Foster, and Jazmine B. King of Saul Ewing LLP write: On September 2, 2026, HB 381 was signed into law and amends Delaware’s data breach notification statute effective immediately. The new Delaware breach law includes a 60-day notice provision to the Delaware Attorney General, narrows the safe harbor for institutions covered by...

Rowan Sterling reports: On 20 August 2026 an employee of RIZAP Inc., the Japanese fitness and health-guidance group, was pulling records out of the health-guidance management system it operates for insurers when the data went into a generative AI service on a personal account the company had never approved. The records covered 726 members of...

Elysse Gorney and Brett Owens of Fisher Phillips write: An employee walks into an exam room wearing AI glasses and asks the device to summarize the visit. Before the encounter ends, the patient’s description of symptoms, medical history, and treatment discussion could be transmitted to an outside AI platform. Without robust policies and procedures in...

Rowan Sterling reports: On 20 August 2026 an employee of RIZAP Inc., the Japanese fitness and health-guidance group, was pulling records out of the health-guidance management system it operates for insurers when the data went into a generative AI service on a personal account the company had never approved. The records covered 726 members of...

Elysse Gorney and Brett Owens of Fisher Phillips write: An employee walks into an exam room wearing AI glasses and asks the device to summarize the visit. Before the encounter ends, the patient’s description of symptoms, medical history, and treatment discussion could be transmitted to an outside AI platform. Without robust policies and procedures in...

Jillian Wilson reports: Think about your most personal information — your health diagnoses, medications you take, medical test results. And now think about uploading some of that sensitive information online. That’s exactly what ChatGPT Health, a new service from its parent company OpenAI, wants you to do. According to ChatGPT, medical questions are one of...

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Attacks on a woman’s right to choose continue by the Republicans. Expect even more attacks after the midterms. Stephen Preger reports: The Trump administration is intentionally slow-rolling efforts to restrict abortion pill access until after the midterms. Once they’re over, “the gloves will be off,” according to one anti-abortion advocate who spoke with The Washington...

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Steve Alder reports: … Fairchild Medical Center has agreed to pay attorneys’ fees and expenses, settlement administration costs, a service award to the class representative, and benefits to the class members. The class consists of all California citizens whose information was disclosed to third parties – approximately 1,000 individuals. Those individuals are eligible to enroll...

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Samantha Rupe reports: The Center for Reproductive Rights has filed a lawsuit challenging Oklahoma abortion laws on behalf of two women who were denied abortion care after receiving fatal fetal diagnoses. Magon Hoffman and Sheena Hamlin said they were forced to leave Oklahoma to obtain care after learning their pregnancies would not result in surviving...

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Meghan O’Connor and Candice Andalia of Quarles write: California is drawing a hard line: artificial intelligence may schedule a therapy appointment, but it may not conduct one. Licensed professionals who allow AI to make independent therapeutic decisions, interact directly with patients, or detect emotions and mental states may face fines of up to $10,000 per...

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Jason Koebler has been all over Flock. He has also reported: The Texas sheriff’s office that used Flock to search more than 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had a self-administered abortion used Axon’s Draft One AI tool to help write a police report about the incident, documents shared with 404 Media show. The tool was...

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DutchNews.nl reports: The Dutch’ healthcare inspectorate has found that the country’s only online abortion service fell short on its duties for care, but will let it keep operating after the site agreed to change its practices. Thuisabortus.nl, which launched in March, was the first service in the Netherlands to let women get the abortion pill prescribed...

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Chad Van Alstin reports: Mental health provider chain LifeStance Health has agreed to a $3 million settlement to put to rest a 2023 class action lawsuit, stemming from its use of third-party tracking technologies on its website. According to the complaint, between March 2020 and April 2023 the publicly traded, for-profit mental health services company...

by Jennifer D. Oliva, Indiana University You might assume that what you tell a doctor stays between you, your physician and perhaps your insurer. But the reality is more complicated. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, the federal privacy law that governs health information and is commonly known as HIPAA, is narrower than its...

Jennifer C. Everett, Jane B. Lucas, Angela T. Burnette, Jennifer Pike, and Sara Pullen of Alston & Bird write: In November 2025, Senator Bill Cassidy, (R-LA) introduced the Health Information Privacy Reform Act (HIPRA), legislation aimed at closing gaps in federal health data protections for health information that is not covered under the Health Insurance Portability...

Seen at FourthAmendment.com: Georgia reaffirms there is a constitutional right of privacy in medical records. Here it was a civil discovery dispute. Goodell v. Moulton, 2026 Ga. LEXIS 232 (Aug. 11, 2026) Read the excerpt from the opinion at FourthAmendment.com.

VOCM reports: The province’s Privacy Commissioner is recommending that public bodies consider providing the name of anyone involved in snooping-related privacy breaches to affected individuals. The recommendation comes after an employee of NL Health Services had a peek at a person’s health record. NLHS was notified. The Privacy Commissioner says the health authority took the appropriate steps...

The Federal Trade Commission, joined by Utah and California, by and through Los Angeles County Counsel, today sued Hims & Hers alleging that the telehealth provider shared consumers’ sensitive health information about medical conditions with third-party advertising platforms despite claiming its services maintain consumers’ privacy and deceives users about its billing and cancellation practices. In...