What better way to welcome the new year than with proposed new HIPAA Security Rules? As 2024 came to an end, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new proposed regulations to strengthen cybersecurity and...more
1/6/2025
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Covered Entities ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Privacy ,
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Health Care Providers ,
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ,
HIPAA Security Rule ,
Risk Assessment
Watch out HHS, the FTC is taking the lead in enforcing privacy violations by companies also subject to HIPAA. BetterHelp, an on-line mental health platform, engaged in unfair and unreasonable privacy practices according to...more
Ready or not, Roe v. Wade leak or not, health app developers are on notice. Those that collect sensitive personal information, such as reproductive data, must carefully navigate both federal and state laws. These laws are...more
According to this article, 2021 has been a “particularly dire year” for health care data breaches. So, it may not seem shocking that a hacker gained access to the protected health information of approximately 400,000...more
The Federal Trade Commission seems to be getting serious about unauthorized disclosures of data collected by health apps. In a Policy Statement issued on September 15, 2021, the FTC says it will enforce its Health Breach...more
H.R. 7898, sent to the President for signature on December 24, 2020 may be the HIPAA holiday gift covered entities and business associates have been waiting for. The bill requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and...more
Fox Rothschild’s Privacy and Data Security practice group maintains this searchable PDF document as well as the Data Breach 411 app to inform businesses of the breach notification statutes in each of the 50 states, Guam,...more
7/21/2020
/ Attorney General ,
Data Breach ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Exceptions ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Safe Harbors
Fox Rothschild’s Privacy and Data Security practice group maintains this searchable PDF document as well as the Data Breach 411 app to inform businesses of the breach notification statutes in each of the 50 states, Guam,...more
If you are a U.S.-based entity that is subject to the EU Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and you store personal data of EU residents and personally identifiable information of U.S. residents in a commingled database, you...more
BY FAILING TO PREPARE, many companies have prepared to fail when it comes to thwarting cyberattacks. Fox Rothschild’s survey of corporate leaders reveals endemic misperceptions about what is necessary for privacy and data...more
Individuals who have received notice of a HIPAA breach are often offered free credit monitoring services for some period of time, particularly if the protected health information involved included social security numbers. I...more