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Privacy Rules
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Data Law Insights
OCR Levies Second Ever HIPAA Civil Monetary Penalty
For only the second time in its history (following the $4.3 million Cignet case) the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Civil Rights (OCR) imposed civil…
Data Counsel
OIG Emphasizes Proactive Enforcement of Privacy Rule and Monitoring of Repeat Offenders
By Lynn Sessions, Suchismita Pahi
The Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) recently released Privacy Standards report assessed the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) oversight of covered entities’ compliance with the Privacy Rule as well as…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
CIPL to Host APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules Workshop in the Philippines
On August 29, 2015, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton & Williams will host a half-day workshop on the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules and their role in enabling…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
APEC Privacy Update – Beijing Meetings
On August 6-10, 2014, the APEC Data Privacy Subgroup and the Electronic Commerce Steering Group met in Beijing to focus on the further implementation of the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules…
Technology Law Dispatch
APEC’s Cross-Border Privacy Rules begin to gain momentum
By Christine Nielsen Czuprynski
This post was written by Cynthia O'Donoghue. In February 2013, Mexico became the second approved participant in the Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) programme - a system for convenient cross-border data…
Health Industry Washington Watch
The HITECH Final Rule: New Privacy/Security Rules of the Road Finally Here
By Brad Rostolsky, Nancy Halstead, Jennifer Pike, Sal Rotella, Zachary Portin
This post was also written by Elizabeth D. O’Brien. On January 25, 2013, the HHS Office for Civil Rights published its long-awaited final rule implementing major changes to the HIPAA Privacy,…
Inside Privacy
HITECH Update #2: HHS Finalizes Privacy Rules to Protect Genetic Information
This post is part of our series on key aspects of the final HITECH omnibus rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on January 17, 2013 (available…
Med Law Blog
HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule Audits and Enforcement
Contributed by Lee Kim, Esq. 412.594.3915 The HITECH Act mandates HIPAA audit and enforcement. In that vein, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR)…
Inside Privacy
SEC Imposes Fines under Regulation S-P for the First Time
By Mike Nonaka
On April 7, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a total of $55,000 in fines against three former executives of a securities broker-dealer for violations of the privacy and…
Triage Health Law
HHS Imposes First Civil Monetary Penalty for HIPAA Privacy Rule Violation
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS”) Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued a Notice of Final Determination finding that Cignet Health of Prince George’s County, MD (“Cignet”),…