Oregon Fertility Clinic Patient Advances LinkedIn Privacy Suit

A patient of Oregon Reproductive Medicine LLC convinced adequately alleged that the fertility clinic’s use of LinkedIn’s Insight Tag violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a federal court ruled.

On her second try, the anonymous plaintiff sufficiently stated that her personal health information was given to LinkedIn, which could be a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, Judge Karin J. Immergut said for the US District Court for the District of Oregon.

ECPA is an one-person consent statute that typically immunizes parties to a communication from being liable for an interception claim. This immunity can be waived ...