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Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: July 2024

Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System said it experienced a breach impacting more than 1.27 million patients when a former employee of vendor Nuance Communications Inc., a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary, accessed patient...more

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Nebraska Legislature Passes Consumer Data Privacy Bill

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Keypoint: Nebraska is the seventeenth state legislature to pass consumer data privacy legislation with a bill that largely tracks the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act. On April 11, 2024, the Nebraska legislature passed...more

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How to Obtain a Court Ordered Subpoena for ISP Subscriber Identity

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Generally, an attorney can issue subpoenas. However, when you seek to serve an Internet Service Provider ("ISP) to find out the name and address of the subscriber (who may be an infringer of your IP), the Cable Privacy Act...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: February 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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: December 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 12  (December, 2023) Northwell Health in New York and Cook County Health in Chicago each experienced impacts from a breach at Nevada-based transcription company Perry Johnson & Associates...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: November 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging federal lawmakers to intervene with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) so that hospitals and health systems can...more

BakerHostetler

Sovereign Immunity Is Alive and Well, Even After a Cyberattack

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As highlighted in the Data Security Incident Response Report, government entities such as universities, medical centers, public utilities and transportation services companies have become highly sought-after targets of cyber...more

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Data Protection: One of These Incidents Is Not Like the Other

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In the burgeoning realm of data incidents, it is a truism that such incidents are not created equal. Indeed, a data incident is not necessarily a data breach. Originally published in Reuters -August 24, 2023...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

China's Cyberspace Administration Proposes Draft Rules to Regulate Generative AI

Regulator proposes requiring content moderation, algorithmic transparency, data protection and security, nondiscrimination, and quality of training data - Regulators around the globe are paying close attention to the...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

[Webinar] 2023 Privacy Litigation Trends - February 15th, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET

The proliferation of privacy-related law suits filed against a wide range of companies related to website tracking/analytics will continue in 2023, joining robocall and biometric privacy disputes. Join Kelley Drye Privacy...more

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Data Privacy and Breach Notification From the Other Side of the World: APAC

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Last week, I discussed eDiscovery in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region in terms of what each country has in place from a rules and discovery standpoint. eDiscovery isn’t the only discipline where US-based bloggers like me tend...more

Foster Garvey PC

Take a Deep Breath. A Status Check on New Privacy Laws

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Unless you’ve been completely disconnected from the internet for the past year, you’ve undoubtedly read about the passage of a number of state and international laws addressing privacy and cybersecurity. Does this mean that...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

A Prelude to Enforcement: Colorado AG Issues Remarks Opining on What Constitutes Reasonable Security Measures

Last month, on Data Privacy Day, Colorado’s Attorney General Philip Weiser released prepared remarks entitled “The Way Forward on Data Privacy and Data Security” that shed some light on his approach to enforcing Colorado’s...more

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California Consumer Privacy Act, California Privacy Rights Act FAQs for Covered Businesses

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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), considered one of the most expansive U.S. privacy laws to date, went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA placed significant limitations on the collection and sale of a...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 1. Privacy Briefs: January 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 1 (January, 2022) - New Jersey issued its third settlement in three months on state-level health care privacy and security laws, announcing that three cancer care providers would adopt new...more

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2021 Data Privacy Overview: New Regulations and Guidance

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While everyone hoped that 2021 would be less tumultuous than 2020, it certainly did not turn out that way in the end. The same was true in the world of data privacy – with sweeping new data protection regulations and guidance...more

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A Look Back at the Year in Data Security – and Predictions for 2022

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As 2021 comes to a close, this article recounts some of the biggest trends in data privacy and cybersecurity from the past year and looks ahead at what we anticipate will come to workplaces in 2022. Employers across the...more

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Global Impact of China's Data and Cybersecurity Laws

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Over the past few years, China has introduced a range of laws dealing with data privacy and cybersecurity. The most well-known is China's Cybersecurity Law, which came into effect in June 2017. With the recent passing of...more

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China’s New Data Security Law Comes Into Force

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Only two months after the release of the second draft of the Data Security Law of the People’s Republic of China (the Second Draft), on June 10, 2021, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress passed the new...more

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California Court Tosses Alleged "Data Breach" Suit, Holding CCPA Does Not Apply Retroactively

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In Gardiner v. Walmart, Inc., a Walmart customer who purchased goods online filed a putative class action alleging that Walmart's cybersecurity procedures led to a purported unauthorized disclosure of his personal identifying...more

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The CCPA Is Live for Enforcement—Is Your Website in Compliance?

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The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—the most comprehensive personal data privacy legislation anywhere in the United States so far—is officially being enforced. Is your website in compliance? Does it need to be? What...more

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CCPA 2.0 Passes: The California Privacy Rights Act To Become Law

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On November 3, 2020, California voters convincingly approved the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) ballot initiative. The CPRA builds upon and amends the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”), aligning it more with...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - September 2020

In this month's edition, we examine the Swiss data protection authority's comments on the validity of its data-sharing framework with the U.S., as well as the European Data Protection Board's guidance on joint controllers and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - July 2020

In this month's edition, we examine the Court of Justice of the European Union's decision invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, as well as the U.S. government's response to the decision. We also examine two...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 20, Number 6. Privacy Briefs: June 2020

Report on Patient Privacy 20, no. 6 (June 2020): A divided Indiana Court of Appeals has reinstated a patient’s claim that a hospital is vicariously liable for the actions of a medical assistant who accessed the patient’s...more

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