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Data Breach Notification
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Privacy Compliance & Data Security
California’s Simitian Moves to Bolster Data Breach Notices
California State Senator, Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), who authored the state's existing data breach law in 2002, has introduced Senate Bill 24 to strengthen the content of notices provided to…
Proskauer on Privacy
Glacially Expedient? Vermont Attorney General Settles with HealthNet for Failure to Timely Notify State Residents of Data Breach
On January 18, 2011, Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell announced a settlement with HealthNet, Inc. and Health Net of the Northeast, Inc. over allegations that the company violated the state's…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
European Network and Information Security Agency Publishes Report on Data Breach Notification in the EU
On January 14, 2011, the European Network and Information Security Agency published a report compiling input on EU breach notification procedures provided by regulatory authorities, telecommunication service providers and legal…
HIPAA & Health Information Technology
PHI: Postscript to the Security Breach at Henry Ford Health System
The HHS Web site has now listed the PHI security breach at Henry Ford Health System.
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Summary of Draft Department of Commerce Privacy Green Paper
The Hogan Lovells Chronicle of Data Protection has been given permission to reprint in its entirety here a Telecom Reports Daily analysis of the draft Department of Commerce Privacy Green…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Indiana Sues WellPoint for $300,000 for Delay in Data Breach Notification
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced on October 29, 2010, that he had filed a lawsuit against WellPoint, Inc. for alleged failure to provide timely notification of a data breach.
Global Privacy & Security Compliance Blog
Update on California Privacy Legislation
With state security breach notification laws starting to show their age, California has again been asked to take the lead in updating these laws. Recently, California’s legislators attempted to push…
Covering Your Ads® Blog
California Data Breach Notification Law Vetoed
This week the Governor of California vetoed what would have been a landmark law on data breach notification. The law sought to strengthen the notification required when databases of personal…
HIPAA & Health Information Technology
“PHI Warnings” in Communications — A Potential Source of Unintended Security Breach?
PHI Warnings are being routinely used by hospitals, providers, health insurers, law firms and others that create, receive, maintain, or transmit PHI. Such PHI Warnings should be used and worded…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
U.S. Senate Hearing on Data Protection
On September 22, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee's Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance Subcommittee held a hearing on S.3742, The Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2010. This…