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Data Privacy Day: 15 Tips to Keep in Mind for the Coming Year

Data Privacy Day is this weekend. Here are some tips and pointers individuals and businesses should keep in mind going forward. 1. Transparency is front and center for regulators in the United States and Europe, so if...more

New Year Likely To Bring New Incentive For Cybersecurity Investment

H.R. 7898, sent to the President for signature on December 24, 2020 may be the HIPAA holiday gift covered entities and business associates have been waiting for. The bill requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and...more

Don’t Get Sprayed: CISA Alert Reminds Health Care Entities To Use Strong Passwords

A joint Alert from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of new cyber attacks targeting COVID-19-related...more

Three Ways Businesses Can Use The SHIELD Act To Protect Against Rising COVID-19 Cyber Fraud

While the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed the world economy to a crawl, the pace of cyberattacks has only increased as cybercriminals exploit the outbreak to steal money and valuable private information from businesses. Law...more

The California AG May Be Watching You, Covered Entity

As Fox partner Odia Kagan posted yesterday, early enforcement of CCPA will focus on data related to kids. In addition, according to a recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle, the California Attorney General will focus...more

How The Grinch Steals Health Care Data: OCR Warnings And Tips In Time For The Holidays

More and more often, health care data is stolen or made inaccessible by targeted ransomware attacks. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published a newsletter this week that provides warnings for HIPAA covered entities and...more

One Of Three $3 Million Lessons: Encrypt Mobile Devices

A large New York hospital system learned this lesson the expensive way. According to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) press release issued earlier this week, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) investigated...more

U.S. States And Territories Data Breach Statutes

Fox Rothschild’s Privacy and Data Security practice group maintains this searchable PDF document as well as the Data Breach 411 app to inform businesses of the breach notification statutes in each of the 50 states, Guam,...more

Where HIPAA Stops, CCPA Begins

Why Covered Entities and Business Associates Cannot Ignore the New California Data Privacy Law- The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) applies to a wide range of for-profit businesses that collect the personal...more

HIPAA Security And “Zero Day” Exploits: How To Stay Ahead Of The Hack

HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR)’s April 3, 2019 cybersecurity newsletter highlights one of the more challenging cybersecurity vulnerabilities faced by covered entities and business associates. OCR reminds covered entities...more

Entities That Comingle EU And U.S. Citizens’ Data Should Review Data Breach Notification Practices

If you are a U.S.-based entity that is subject to the EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and you store personal data of EU residents and personally identifiable information of U.S. residents in a commingled database, you...more

The California Consumer Privacy Act

Companies that are getting acclimated to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) have a new and just as significant compliance challenge to confront: The California Consumer Privacy Act. Signed into...more

When HIPAA Compliance Is Not Enough: The Territorial Scope Of GDPR

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018. Whereas HIPAA applies to particular types or classes of data creators, recipients, maintainers or transmitters (U.S. covered...more

Cybersecurity Readiness – A Fox Rothschild Exclusive Report For C-Suite Level Executives

BY FAILING TO PREPARE, many companies have prepared to fail when it comes to thwarting cyberattacks. Fox Rothschild’s survey of corporate leaders reveals endemic misperceptions about what is necessary for privacy and data...more

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