On December 10, the California attorney general released the fourth set of proposed modifications (Proposed Modifications) to the implementing regulations of the CCPA. These Proposed Modifications come only one month after...more
12/15/2020
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
State Attorneys General
On September 28, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB-713 into law, which more closely aligned the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) with the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996...more
California voters passed Proposition 24 in last week’s general election to adopt the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), which amends the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) in several ways intended to...more
Why It Matters -
In order to safeguard their information, health care and life science organizations should remain vigilant in monitoring DHCoE developments and initiatives, including any policy/regulation clarifications...more
10/7/2020
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Digital Health ,
Electronic Health Record Incentives ,
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Life Sciences ,
Machine Learning ,
OCR ,
Security Risk Assessments
On September 28, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB-713 into law, which relaxes some of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) compliance challenges faced by the health care and life science industries — more...more
10/2/2020
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Clinical Trials ,
CMIA ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Exemptions ,
Governor Newsom ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Life Sciences ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
Privacy Laws
On August 6, 2020, President Trump issued two executive orders banning widely used Chinese social media services TikTok and WeChat. Citing national security concerns due to the applications’ abilities to automatically capture...more
8/13/2020
/ CFIUS ,
China ,
Data Collection ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Investment ,
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) ,
Listing Standards ,
Mobile Apps ,
National Security ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Social Media ,
TikTok ,
Trump Administration
On July 17, 2020 the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the COVID-19 Recovery CISA Tabletop Exercise Package (CTEP) “to assist private sector stakeholders and critical infrastructure owners and...more
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the supreme court of the European Union on matters involving European Union law, issued its long anticipated decision in the “Schrems II” case ( case...more
7/21/2020
/ Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Processors ,
Data Protection ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ireland ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
On May 4, Californians for Consumer Privacy, the organization that sponsored the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) announced that it had submitted enough signatures to put a new privacy law, the California Privacy Rights...more
On April 2, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that, effective immediately, it will exercise its enforcement discretion over certain provisions of the HIPAA...more
On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 (the novel coronavirus) a pandemic. On March 13, President Trump declared the outbreak of COVID-19 a national emergency. ...more
On February 7, 2020, the California Attorney General released modifications to the proposed regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the state’s sweeping privacy law that took effect on January 1. ...more
2/18/2020
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Information Governance ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
State and Local Government ,
State Attorneys General
Google Health’s Partnerships Raise Privacy Concerns -
Recently, Google has been at the center of privacy concerns due to its health- sharing collaborations with the University of Chicago Medical Center (the Medical Center)...more
1/29/2020
/ Algorithms ,
Alphabet Company ,
Analytics ,
Ascension ,
Class Action ,
Confidential Information ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Privacy ,
Data-Sharing ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
EHR ,
Electronic Medical Records ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Google ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Machine Learning ,
NIST ,
OCR ,
Partnerships ,
Patient Privacy Rights ,
PHI ,
Popular ,
Privacy Concerns ,
Project Nightingale ,
Search Engines