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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. Since 2003, there have been over 331,100 complaints that were handled by the Office for Civil Rights.

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eDiscovery for the Rest of Us: eDiscovery Best Practices, Part Two

eDiscovery Daily

Throughout the case, the plaintiff claimed that the evidence needed to prove the case existed in emails stored on UBS’ own computer systems. That case and the subsequent rule changes effectively forced civil litigants into a compliance mode with respect to their proper retention and management of electronically stored information (ESI).

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Galperin is the current Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and noted free speech advocate. Markstedter actively contributes to filling the infosec education gap. Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows. October is now BGP Awareness Month.

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European Data Privacy Day Expert Panel Provides 30-Year Retrospective on UK Data Protection

Hunton Privacy

Howe set up the first system of registration for data users (as they were then called), encouraged the development of sectoral codes of practice, provided education, raised awareness of data protection and managed privacy-related complaints. In 2003, the ICO set up regional offices in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.