Lexology March 9, 2020
To help identify trends in privacy representations, BCLP reviewed the websites and privacy notices of those Fortune 500 companies identified as primarily engaged in the healthcare and medical industries.
The data shows that there is no one strategy for disclosing privacy practices to consumers, or for complying with federal and state laws – including the CCPA – that govern data privacy. The following summarizes current industry trends:
- Privacy notices are, on average, much older than those of the overall Fortune 500. This skew is caused in part by a minority of companies with significantly older privacy policies.
- While the majority of companies have updated their privacy notices for the CCPA, about a third of the industry has not addressed...