On April 20, 2022, Connecticut’s Senate passed S.B. 6, an Act concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring. The comprehensive privacy bill will now move to the Connecticut House, where it has the potential to become...more
Last week, two bills were proposed in Congress aimed at improving consumer privacy protection. These proposals focus on specific areas of privacy law – health data that falls outside of HIPAA and do-not-track signals....more
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) released two guidance documents to aid in compliance with its Health Breach Notification Rule (“the Rule”), which requires “vendors of personal health records” or “PHR related...more
On June 7, 2021, the Colorado House of Representatives passed the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), a comprehensive privacy law similar to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as well...more
6/9/2021
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On January 15, 2021, the Fifth Circuit vacated a $4.3 million penalty that the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had issued against the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer...more
On December 19, the Senate passed H.R.7898, which the House of Representatives had previously passed on December 9. This law amends the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to require...more
12/23/2020
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In a flurry of legislative activity, the California legislature passed a number of last-minute privacy bills that now await the signature of Governor Gavin Newsom in order to go into effect. As was expected, the California...more
As state legislatures begin their 2020 sessions, proposals for stronger privacy laws are at the top of the agenda across the country. Carrying forward the story we told in reports in February, April, and July of last year,...more
2/4/2020
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The purpose of this article is to provide background information on the California Consumer Privacy Act and specifically the exemptions that generally will be applicable to the insurance industry. While developing a...more
1/28/2020
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