Health Care & Hospital Law
Jun. 13, 2023
Kaiser website code shares data with 3rd parties, lawsuit says
According to the complaint, the type of information that was compromised included, “patient status, identifying information, medical topics researched, choices made, information shared and communications with their medical providers.”
A proposed class of plaintiffs claim that Kaiser Permanente Health Plan Inc. violated California and federal privacy laws by installing pieces of “session replay” code on its website.
They said the code would intercept and distribute the private, confidential information of patients to third party companies such as Twitter Inc. and Google LLC.
Kaiser Permanente’s privacy statement says, “Our use and disclosure o...
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