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
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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
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
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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
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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 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
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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
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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