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What Counts as “Good Faith Security Research?”

Krebs on Security

Department of Justice (DOJ) recently revised its policy on charging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), a 1986 law that remains the primary statute by which federal prosecutors pursue cybercrime cases. In a statemen t about the changes, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O.

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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. For example, imagine a hospital employee accidentally shares a patient’s medical records with someone who shouldn’t have seen them.

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Vint Cerf: Maybe We Need an Internet Driver’s License

John Battelle's Searchblog

Is there a moment in the history of computing that is as significant as the one we’re in now? And that has been the workhorse of the design of computer chips for years and years. And that has been the workhorse of the design of computer chips for years and years. Others have said, it’s as significant as the iPhone.

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Information Management in the Not-So-Distant Future of Health Care

AIIM

The classic example is the insurer that won’t pay for care that a doctor determines a patient needs. Today, if you have a computer, you have a doctor – videoconference doctor visits routinely complement in-person ones. Electronic Health Record. Almost all hospitals have adopted the Electronic Health Record (EHR).

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What is Employee Monitoring? Full Guide to Getting It Right

eSecurity Planet

These can come in a variety of forms we’ll discuss in more detail below, but the most common in a modern office setting is software monitoring, where a piece of software is installed onto employees’ computers, which can then track things such as web activity. The most obvious is performance tracking. Benefits of Employee Monitoring.

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds common law duty for employers extends to protecting sensitive employee information

Data Protection Report

Rather, the duty arises under the common law rule that when an actor takes an affirmative action, that actor must exercise reasonable care to protect others from an unreasonable risk of harm from such act. The duty is one to exercise reasonable care, which may be different depending on the size and resources of a particular company.

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Saudi Arabia’s New Data Protection Law – What you need to know

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

For example, an unlawful transfer of personal data outside of KSA can result in a criminal conviction and imprisonment. Some of these steps include: Conduct a data mapping exercise. The data mapping exercise will provide an organisation with a snapshot of how its data is collected and managed. What’s next?