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Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Maryland Amends Data Breach Law
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan recently signed into law House Bill 1154, which amends the state's data breach notification law. This blog entry provides an overview of the prospective changes.
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Employers and Wellness Plans: Questions about Quest Breach?
Last week, we wrote that Quest Diagnostics reported in a security filing that a collection agency performing collections for the company had suffered an intrusion that exposed almost 12 million…
Ride the Lightning
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Suffers Data Breach: Travelers’ Photos Compromised
Password Protected
How Do State Governments Protect Your Personal Information?
The world of data privacy often focuses on how companies are using consumers’ information and what measures those companies take to protect such information. Each of the fifty states have…
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Hackers Attack the Weakest Link in Office 365
By John Simek
The recommendation is to always enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever it is available. Many services and applications now have two-factor authentication (2FA) available for authenticating a logon. It may be…
Health Law | STAT
Recent Settlement with OCR and New OCR Fact Sheet Serve as Reminders That Business Associates Have Direct Liability under HIPAA
By Thora A. Johnson, Jami Mills Vibbert, Judy Kim
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has shown once again that it is willing to enforce HIPAA against business associates, as seen in a…
Health Care Today
When the government may go after business associates under HIPAA
The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been able to hold “business associates” directly liable for certain HIPAA violations since 2009,…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Oregon Extends Data Breach Notification Requirements to Include Third-Party Vendors
On May 24, 2019, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into law Senate Bill 684, which extends Oregon's data breach notification requirements to include third-party vendors. This blog entry provides an…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Quest Diagnostics Reports Data Breach Affecting 11.9M Patients in Securities Filing
Another day in the healthc are industry, another big data breach. This week, Quest Diagnostics announced in a security filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, that a collection agency…
Security, Privacy and the Law
Presentation: The New Massachusetts Data Breach Law – An Update
By Foley Hoag
Chris Hart, Colin Zick and Brad MacDougall, VP Government Affairs (AIM) Click here to download the slides.