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Akin Intelligence - June 2024

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 7/15/2024

Welcome to the June edition of Akin Intelligence. This month, the General Services Administration (GSA) launched its first AI-focused cohort of Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF), bringing together experts from across the...more

Senate AI Working Group Releases Long-Anticipated Roadmap for AI Policy

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 5/17/2024

On May 15, 2024, the Senate AI Working Group—Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD), Todd Young (R-IN), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM)—issued their long-anticipated Roadmap for Artificial...more

Operational Implications of the New Bulk Sensitive Data Executive Order

Ankura on 5/7/2024

On February 28, 2024, President Biden signed Executive Order 14117 (the EO), on “Preventing Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data and United States Government-Related Data by Countries of Concern.” The United...more

Privacy Briefs: April 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 4/22/2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) is seeking comment on a proposed rule to implement reporting requirements for critical infrastructure entities, including health care entities, on cyberattacks and ransomware...more

Privacy Briefs: February 2024

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 2/9/2024

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has warned that information technology (IT) help desks are being targeted in a social engineering scheme that uses the stolen identity of revenue cycle employees or employees in other...more

Florida Bill Proposes Safe Harbor Against Breach Suits to Businesses Maintaining Recognized Cybersecurity Programs

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/25/2024

A recently introduced bill in the Florida Legislature would provide businesses operating in Florida, including health care providers, with a legal defense to data breach lawsuits if they maintain robust cybersecurity measures...more

POTUS Issues Expansive Executive Order on AI, Calling for All Hands On Deck

ArentFox Schiff on 11/8/2023

On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued an expansive Executive Order (EO) on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), aiming to establish standards for AI technology to...more

White House Passes Sweeping AI Executive Order

Paul Hastings LLP on 11/1/2023

On October 30, 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration unveiled a sweeping Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Executive Order represents the most...more

President Biden Signs Sweeping Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

Sherman & Howard L.L.C. on 11/1/2023

On October 30, 2023, President Biden issued a sweeping Executive Order regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The order calls for federal agencies to create new standards around privacy, security, safety, and the...more

Akin Intelligence - October 2023

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/19/2023

Welcome to the October edition of Akin Intelligence. We continue to see bipartisan and international interest in artificial intelligence (AI) regulation. In the executive branch, agencies are working towards developing...more

Privacy Briefs: October 2023

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 10/6/2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more

New England Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Class Action Filings Soar in 2023

Pierce Atwood LLP on 9/8/2023

Earlier in 2023, we launched our New England and First Circuit Class Action Tracker, as a tool to analyze class action litigation trends in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. In July, we updated our...more

HHS releases health care cybersecurity guide

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 3/24/2023

On March 8, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a cybersecurity implementation guide to assist public and private health care sectors prevent cybersecurity incidents. The Cybersecurity Framework...more

NIST Delivers Guidance for Responsible AI

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 1/30/2023

On January 26, 2023, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Risk Management Framework (AI Risk Management Framework 1.0), a voluntary guidance document for...more

Emerging Threats: Cyber Attacks and Side-Channel Evolution

Polsinelli on 12/15/2022

“Side-Channel” attacks generally refer to a type of criminal cyber attacker activity that exploits vulnerabilities so that the attacker can collect and analyze “leakage” of data from a device, as a means to identify certain...more

Window on Washington – Vol. 6, Issue 39

Clark Hill PLC on 10/20/2022

Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. Congress is in recess to campaign for the upcoming midterms. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) on Wednesday said the Senate will focus on judicial nominations...more

NIST Seeks Comment on Proposals to Identify and Manage Bias in Artificial Intelligence

Perkins Coie on 7/21/2021

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published “A Proposal for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence,” a special publication that is part of a series of documents and workshops...more

NIST Plans to Update HIPAA Security Guidance – Asks for Comments

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/17/2021

Recently, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) requested comments to its Resource Guide for implementing the HIPAA Security Rule. (i.e., SP 800-66). This Guide, first released in 2008, summarizes the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2019

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/13/2019

The Wolcott school system in Wolcott, Connecticut has been recovering for four months from a ransomware attack that hit its system at the end of the school year. Last week, it was hit with a second attack. According to...more

HHS Releases Voluntary Cybersecurity Practices, Supplementing Existing Requirements

Burns & Levinson LLP on 1/16/2019

At the close of 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP): Managing Threats and Protecting Patients. While not formally styled as guidance or interpretive...more

Global Privacy & Cybersecurity Update Vol. 15

Jones Day on 9/15/2017

UNITED STATES - Regulatory—Policy, Best Practices, and Standards - FTC Comments on Improvements to IoT Device Security - On June 19, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") submitted comments to a working group organized by the...more

Congressional Task Force Issues Report on Cybersecurity in the Health Care Industry

Polsinelli on 9/14/2017

Recently, the Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force (the “Task Force”) issued its Report on Improving Cybersecurity in the Health Care Industry (the “Report”). The Task Force, which was created by Congress as part of...more

What Did They Say About Cybersecurity in 2016? 8 Proclamations from Regulators and the Courts

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 1/30/2017

There is no such thing as compliance with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (FTC). In September, the FTC dispelled a commonly held misconception regarding the NIST Framework: It “is not, and isn’t intended to be, a standard or...more

GAO Study Slams HHS For Lack of Guidance to Covered Entities

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 10/10/2016

We watch closely for any guidance to HIPAA covered entities and business associates from the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (HHS/OCR). Why? Because there is so little of it. Lately, the only...more

Data Breach Response Planning: Laying the Right Foundation

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 9/17/2015

Part of Bradley Arant’s Privacy and Information Security Team’s seven-part Data Breach Toolkit Webinar Series, the “Data Breach Response Planning: Laying the Right Foundation” webinar, led by Paige Boshell and Amy Leopard,...more

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