Data Privacy
12.28.20
11.09.20
Recent enforcement under OCR’s Right of Access Initiative leads...
Failing to provide patients with access to their health information can lead to fines and other enforcement actions for physician practices and other health care entities.
Category Data Privacy
11.04.20
Ransomware attacks hit major hospital networks
Hospitals and health care systems across the United States are increasingly the targets of ransomware attacks in what is thought to be a coordinated cybercrime effort by Russia.
Category Data Privacy
10.20.20
New browser feature allows users to opt out of data collection
A new browser specification called Global Privacy Control (GPC) allows users to communicate to websites that they do not wish to have their browsing data sold. Could GPC succeed where Do Not Track faltered?
Category Data Privacy
10.13.20
The Ninth Circuit strikes back on FISA abuse: But is it too...
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the government’s previously operational bulk telephony metadata collection program, authorized following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, violated the requirements of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) and likely violated the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unlawful search and seizure.
Category Data Privacy
10.05.20
Federal Trade Commission held workshop addressing data...
On September 22nd, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hosted a workshop to examine the potential benefits and challenges to consumers and competition raised by data portability.
Category Data Privacy
09.23.20
Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act does not preempt biometric...
In McDonald v. Symphony Bronzeville Park LLC, the Illinois Appellate Court sided with the plaintiff and the trial court, holding that the IWCA does not preempt BIPA claims that arise in the workplace.
Category Data Privacy
09.02.20
CCPA continues to hit pause: B2B and employee provisions on...
Leading up to the CCPA’s effective date, two important amendments were passed which partially excluded employee information and business-to-business (B2B) information from the stringent coverage of the CCPA. The California Legislature recently passed a bill to extend these provisions another year.
Category Data Privacy
08.28.20
Recent OCR enforcement serves as reminder that small providers...
Nonprofit FQHC found to be out of compliance and subject to a fine after a breach investigation.
Category Data Privacy