Compliance Perspective: What's New in Healthcare Privacy
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“Cybersecurity” has emerged as one of top risks facing organizations. Considering the steady stream of massive data breaches affecting millions (sometimes billions), the debilitating effects of ransomware on an organization’s...more
2023 brought a surge of data privacy developments, with a large expansion of state comprehensive privacy laws, litigation of new claims based on older laws (e.g. wiretapping and VPPA cases), increased scrutiny on data...more
Despite its misleading title, Washington’s My Health My Data Act will regulate many things most people would not think of as health-related data. It will also regulate non-Washington entities, mere processors of...more
The Tennessee Information Protection Act (TIPA) passed unanimously through both houses of the Tennessee legislature and was signed by Governor Bill Lee on May 11, 2023. Tennessee joins seven states in enacting a comprehensive...more
Keypoint: In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, Washington legislators introduced legislation to enhance privacy protections for consumer health data. In early March, lawmakers in Washington state’s House...more
The past two weeks have seen continued developments in the state comprehensive privacy legislative landscape. Maryland, Minnesota, and Texas have entered the fray with new proposals, bringing the total number of states that...more
More than ever before, biometric data, a term often used broadly to refer to metrics related to human characteristics, is being collected at a faster pace. Devices of all kinds are now able to able to track and store data...more
As states develop new laws directed at the security of biometric identifiers, such as fingerprints and retina scans, institutions of higher education are likely to face a host of new compliance requirements and increased...more
Professor Deprived of Due Process Through Salary Reduction - Due process with respect to an employee’s property interest in employment is a vitally important consideration at public institutions, and, as a recent case...more
We leave breadcrumbs of biometric information scattered around our daily lives, which may be collected and used by private entities, often without our knowledge or consent. The sound of your voice when you call your bank’s...more