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Data Breach
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Health Law Update
OCR to Increase Efforts to Investigate Breaches Affecting Fewer Than 500 Individuals
The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is the federal agency tasked with investigating data breaches involving protected health information (PHI) under the Health Insurance…
Intellectual Property
Quick Hits – September 6, 2016
How was your holiday weekend? Hopefully you're back and energized for a special Tuesday edition of Quick Hits. Here's what we've got: Apple is being sued by users claiming a design…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Orleans Medical Clinic Notifies 6,890 Patients of Data Breach
Orleans Medical Clinic (Orleans) in Indiana has notified the Office for Civil Rights that the protected health information of 6,890 patients was compromised as a result of an upgrade to…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
SCAN Health Plan Notifies Patients of Data Breach Affecting 87,000 Individuals
SCAN Health Plan of California, SCAN Health Plan Arizona, and VillageHealth are in the process of notifying certain plan members and non-plan members of a breach of protected health information,…
Technology Law Dispatch
Third Circuit Dismissal Affirmance Based on Economic Loss Doctrine Shows Spokeo Shouldn’t Be Your Only Data Breach Class Action Exit Strategy
While the United States Supreme Court’s ruling in Spokeo v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (2016), has garnered much attention after being cited by numerous courts as a means to…
The Right Coast
The Bizarre Media Blackout Of Hacked George Soros Documents | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis – IBD
Scandal: Leaked documents released a few days ago provide juicy insider details of how a fabulously rich businessman has been using his money to influence elections in Europe, underwrite an…
Carpe Datum Law
Definition of “Reasonable” Information Security in California
By Natalya Northrip, CIPP/US, CIPP/E
On February 16, 2016, California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris released the California Data Breach Report 2012-2015 (the “Report”), which provided a comprehensive analysis of the data breaches reported to…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
KPMG Survey Finds That Shoppers Care about Retail Data Breaches
On the heels of Eddie Bauer’s notification of a cyber intrusion affecting all of its retail stores in the U.S. and Canada, KPMG has released a study showing that almost…
Data Counsel
Latest Data Breach Settlement Illustrates Need for Companies to Prioritize Cybersecurity
On Aug. 5, 2016, the New York attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, announced a $100,000 settlement with an e-retailer following an investigation of a data breach that resulted in the potential…
Health Law
OCR Announces Major HIPAA Enforcement Initiative
The Department of Health & Human Services Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced on August 18, 2016 that it is stepping up enforcement actions related to small breaches. Although OCR…