Taras M. Czebiniak
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Taras M. Czebiniak advises clients on enterprise technology transactions, privacy compliance, and data governance, with a particular focus on complex vendor relationships in regulated, large-scale health care environments. He holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional/US (CIPP/US) designation.
Taras serves as technology and data counsel for major health system clients, managing high-volume portfolios spanning enterprise technology agreements (including SaaS, cloud, software licensing, telecom, and professional services) as well as procurement and supply chain contracts encompassing GPO arrangements, rebate programs, capital equipment purchases, and clinical consumables.
His practice centers on:
- data rights frameworks:
- information security provisions:
- privacy compliance: and
- risk allocation structures across enterprise vendor relationships.
Taras focuses on enabling consistent, proportionate risk management across complex transactional portfolios by developing frameworks and clauses around de-identification, secondary data use controls, data governance, and emerging AI contracting issues. He counsels clients on HIPAA-adjacent compliance matters intersecting with technology contracting and vendor operations. Taras also advises clients on consumer and regulated privacy compliance for digital properties under multi-state U.S. privacy law and GDPR/CCPA frameworks.
Prior to joining the firm, Taras was an associate in the Intellectual Property Transactions group at a large international law firm, where he advised on the intellectual property and technology aspects of mergers and acquisitions, capital raises, collaborations, and commercialization transactions across life sciences, technology, financial services, and media. His work included complex data and financial index licenses, software development and commercialization arrangements, and trademark and brand licenses. He maintained an active pro bono practice including nonprofit formation and political asylum representation.
In law school, Taras served as Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and completed the Certificate in Law & Technology. He spent a summer clerking at the U.S. International Trade Commission and prior to law school worked as a legal assistant at a New York law firm focusing on antitrust and HSR matters.
Taras speaks Ukrainian and French.
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Website pixel tracking lawsuits remain active across the country—and health care organizations remain prime targets. While much of the focus is on existing website content, a quieter risk often arises earlier: in web development and rebranding contracts.
Health care providers and other entities are increasingly facing class action lawsuits over the use of tracking technologies on their websites—particularly pixels that transmit user data to platforms like Meta and Google. One such case recently settled for $6.75 million. These lawsuits often catch providers off guard, as they stem from routine, widely used website configurations.
On August 29, 2024, the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) withdrew its appeal of a federal court decision that invalidated certain aspects of HHS guidance regarding the use of tracking technologies (e.g., pixels that collect data on website usage to create directed marketing campaigns).
Join Garfunkel Wild's Zachary B. Cohen and Taras M. Czebiniak for an informative and eye-opening session that will delve into some of the most common compliance issues physicians must navigate in the digital age.
The use of online tracking technologies has led to multi-million dollar lawsuits alleging that health systems are revealing private information, including personal health information, to third parties such as Google and Meta.
The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) has published a Bulletin which officially states that incorporating certain tracking technologies into websites and mobile applications may cause HIPAA violations that could result in breach notification obligations as well as penalties. This includes platforms and services provided by companies like Meta (formerly Facebook) and Google.
Taras M. Czebiniak advises clients on enterprise technology transactions, privacy compliance, and data governance, with a particular focus on complex vendor relationships in regulated, large-scale health care environments. He holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional/US (CIPP/US) designation.
Taras serves as technology and data counsel for major health system clients, managing high-volume portfolios spanning enterprise technology agreements (including SaaS, cloud, software licensing, telecom, and professional services) as well as procurement and supply chain contracts encompassing GPO arrangements, rebate programs, capital equipment purchases, and clinical consumables.
His practice centers on:
- data rights frameworks:
- information security provisions:
- privacy compliance: and
- risk allocation structures across enterprise vendor relationships.
Taras focuses on enabling consistent, proportionate risk management across complex transactional portfolios by developing frameworks and clauses around de-identification, secondary data use controls, data governance, and emerging AI contracting issues. He counsels clients on HIPAA-adjacent compliance matters intersecting with technology contracting and vendor operations. Taras also advises clients on consumer and regulated privacy compliance for digital properties under multi-state U.S. privacy law and GDPR/CCPA frameworks.
Prior to joining the firm, Taras was an associate in the Intellectual Property Transactions group at a large international law firm, where he advised on the intellectual property and technology aspects of mergers and acquisitions, capital raises, collaborations, and commercialization transactions across life sciences, technology, financial services, and media. His work included complex data and financial index licenses, software development and commercialization arrangements, and trademark and brand licenses. He maintained an active pro bono practice including nonprofit formation and political asylum representation.
In law school, Taras served as Editor-in-Chief of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and completed the Certificate in Law & Technology. He spent a summer clerking at the U.S. International Trade Commission and prior to law school worked as a legal assistant at a New York law firm focusing on antitrust and HSR matters.
Taras speaks Ukrainian and French.
The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) has published a Bulletin which officially states that incorporating certain tracking technologies into websites and mobile applications may cause HIPAA violations that could result in breach notification obligations as well as penalties. This includes platforms and services provided by companies like Meta (formerly Facebook) and Google.
Join Garfunkel Wild's Zachary B. Cohen and Taras M. Czebiniak for an informative and eye-opening session that will delve into some of the most common compliance issues physicians must navigate in the digital age.
The use of online tracking technologies has led to multi-million dollar lawsuits alleging that health systems are revealing private information, including personal health information, to third parties such as Google and Meta.
On August 29, 2024, the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) withdrew its appeal of a federal court decision that invalidated certain aspects of HHS guidance regarding the use of tracking technologies (e.g., pixels that collect data on website usage to create directed marketing campaigns).
Health care providers and other entities are increasingly facing class action lawsuits over the use of tracking technologies on their websites—particularly pixels that transmit user data to platforms like Meta and Google. One such case recently settled for $6.75 million. These lawsuits often catch providers off guard, as they stem from routine, widely used website configurations.
Website pixel tracking lawsuits remain active across the country—and health care organizations remain prime targets. While much of the focus is on existing website content, a quieter risk often arises earlier: in web development and rebranding contracts.
Website pixel tracking lawsuits remain active across the country—and health care organizations remain prime targets. While much of the focus is on existing website content, a quieter risk often arises earlier: in web development and rebranding contracts.
Health care providers and other entities are increasingly facing class action lawsuits over the use of tracking technologies on their websites—particularly pixels that transmit user data to platforms like Meta and Google. One such case recently settled for $6.75 million. These lawsuits often catch providers off guard, as they stem from routine, widely used website configurations.
On August 29, 2024, the Federal Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) withdrew its appeal of a federal court decision that invalidated certain aspects of HHS guidance regarding the use of tracking technologies (e.g., pixels that collect data on website usage to create directed marketing campaigns).
Join Garfunkel Wild's Zachary B. Cohen and Taras M. Czebiniak for an informative and eye-opening session that will delve into some of the most common compliance issues physicians must navigate in the digital age.
The use of online tracking technologies has led to multi-million dollar lawsuits alleging that health systems are revealing private information, including personal health information, to third parties such as Google and Meta.
The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) has published a Bulletin which officially states that incorporating certain tracking technologies into websites and mobile applications may cause HIPAA violations that could result in breach notification obligations as well as penalties. This includes platforms and services provided by companies like Meta (formerly Facebook) and Google.
Practices
Education
- with Certificate in Law & Technology
- Phi Beta Kappa, Science & Technology Studies and French Area Studies
Court admissions
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Health Law Association
- Certified Information Privacy Professional/U.S., International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP)
AWARDS & RANKINGS
- Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch – Health Care Law (2022-2025)
- Super Lawyers – New York Metro Rising Star (2020-2022)