Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Privacy and Data Security
Compliance Perspective: What's New in Healthcare Privacy
Webinar: Investigating and Resolving Sexual Assaults on Campus
Key Takeaways: On December 28, 2024, education technology company PowerSchool disclosed a cybersecurity breach impacting 62 million students and 9.5 million educators across the globe. The intrusion, which began on December...more
As the legislative season continues, some states, like Georgia and Oklahoma, have continued to progress in the efforts to establish a comprehensive data privacy law while others, such as Alabama, Illinois, and Massachusetts,...more
“Cybersecurity” has emerged as one of top risks facing organizations. Considering the steady stream of massive data breaches affecting millions (sometimes billions), the debilitating effects of ransomware on an organization’s...more
A threshold consideration for businesses trying to understand the actors that enforce U.S. consumer privacy laws is an analysis of which laws apply to that business. This is because U.S. consumer privacy laws exist as a...more
Editor’s Note: On February 15, 2023, HaystackID shared an educational webcast to provide valuable insight into the ways in which AI is being used to address key issues in the realm of privacy and cybersecurity. The expert...more
Editor’s Note: On September 29, 2022, HaystackID shared an educational webcast on the topic of US privacy law. As privacy continues to move to the forefront of not only information consideration but of business concern for...more
School districts must consider the sanctity and privacy of data they maintain, as a recent decision underscores from the New York State Education Department’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer. This alert explains the...more
As we bid farewell to 2020 and look toward the uncharted territory of 2021, it is hard not to take inventory of all that has changed in such a short period. No one at the beginning of 2020 would have predicted what transpired...more
Recently the Health Care Compliance Association released the new Health Care Privacy Handbook, 3rd Edition. https://www.hcca-info.org/health-care-privacy-handbook To learn what’s new in the book and in healthcare privacy...more
Irrespective of your industry, the current COVID-19 pandemic poses a new and unique challenge to organizations, their employees, and their customers. The emergence of COVID-19 has prompted organizations to collect and process...more
It should come as no surprise that educational institutions are among the top targets for hackers and purveyors of personally identifiable information. In 2017, only the financial and healthcare sectors had more data...more
Data breaches are inevitable. 2017 was the “year of the data breach,” with more exposure of personally identifiable information (“PII”) than ever before. If you were one of the 30% of US-based consumers who were notified of a...more
On May 25, 2018, the European Union will begin enforcing the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which enacts strict standards for the handling, retaining, and processing of the personal data of any individual located...more
As New York public schools increase the use of technology in day-to-day operations and in the classroom, they increasingly face data management and data security threats similar to those faced by businesses and non-profit...more
A recent study by the Ponemon Institute found that insider threats due to malicious or negligent employees are the leading cause of private-sector cybersecurity incidents. Of the over 600 information security professionals...more
When it comes to cyberattack targets, many think of retailers and associated credit card transactions or customer information, or perhaps healthcare providers with their ever-increasing storage and transmission of electronic...more
In light of numerous recent data breaches, cybersecurity has emerged as an issue impacting organizations ranging from the local hardware store to the largest multi-national firms in the world. In short, no industry is immune...more
On January 14, 2014, Senator Edward Markey (D-Mass) announced that he plans to introduce legislation in the coming weeks to ensure that safeguards are in place for student data shared with third parties. Citing concerns...more