Drivers, start your engines. It has been months of high speed for privacy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence....more
5/16/2024
/ Algorithms ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Brokers ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Healthcare ,
Insurance Industry ,
Life Insurance ,
Machine Learning ,
NAIC ,
TCPA
As the health care industry continues reeling from the recent Change Healthcare ransomware attack that crippled large portions of the U.S. health care system, health care providers are naturally reminded of the importance of...more
3/12/2024
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Hackers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
Healthcare ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Popular
Generative AI has captured the public’s attention and promises to transform the way we live and work. The technology, however, implicates a number of important cybersecurity and privacy considerations for organizations. This...more
On February 1, the NAIC’s Privacy Working Group’s new privacy model germinated. After months of development, the exposure draft, titled “Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Model Law #674” (Proposed Model), has finally...more
Website tracking technologies have become ubiquitous as a means for companies to monitor traffic to their websites and enhance the user experience. Class actions alleging insufficient notice and consent related to those same...more
The NAIC’s Privacy Protections Working Group has updated its work plan, planting two crops for its fall 2023 harvest: Time will tell what other seedlings catch the NAIC’s eye. The above dates, however, are subject to growing...more
On February 9, 2022, U.S. Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced the “Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act.” The bipartisan act, intended to modernize the Health Insurance Portability and...more
In September and October 2021 alone, the Federal Trade Commission, the New York State Department of Financial Services, and the Securities and Exchange Commission all signaled their plans for a cybersecurity squall....more
On November 18, calling frozen federal legislative efforts “an opportunity” for state insurance regulators to “update state privacy protections … and potentially forestall or mitigate the impacts of any preemptive federal...more
On July 7, Colorado joined California and Virginia as the third state to pass comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. All three states have new privacy laws with effective dates in 2023 (though California’s Privacy Rights...more
It’s a hot spring for state privacy legislation. Privacy bills are pending in roughly 20 states, and while Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) exemptions may act as a cool breeze in some, issues remain...more
There has been no lack of new guidance regarding health care cybersecurity in recent weeks. But the American Medical Association’s (AMA) newly released “Privacy Principles” is unique in its aim at entities involved in health...more
Last week, the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Hospital Association (AHA), recognizing the increased cybersecurity threats facing health care providers, issued joint guidance for physicians working from...more
4/23/2020
/ Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Hackers ,
Health Care Providers ,
Information Governance ,
PHI ,
Phishing Scams ,
Popular ,
Risk Management ,
Vulnerability Assessments
Recognizing that the NAIC’s model consumer data privacy laws have not been revised since 2017, the NAIC Privacy Protections Working Group (Privacy WG) is dusting off the NAIC Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Model...more
COVID-19 spurred an overnight surge in demand for work-from-home vendors. These include companies offering audio and videoconferencing services, cloud services, e-commerce platforms, and virtual desktop infrastructure, to...more
4/5/2020
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Contract Peformance ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Management ,
Data Security ,
Force Majeure Clause ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Privacy Policy ,
Telecommuting ,
Vendor Contacts
It starts inconspicuously enough with an email. You’re busy, so without thinking, you quickly open it and view the attachment. You may have just compromised the security of your entire company and the privacy of every...more
2/5/2020
/ Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Employee Training ,
Hackers ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Management