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First Multistate HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit May Signal Increased State Interest in Data Security Enforcement

Data Matters

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D.

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France: the CNIL has released its annual dawn raid Program for 2023: four national priorities and one priority coming from the EDPB!

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

As a reminder, in 2022, the CNIL priority topics were (i) direct marketing (ii) monitoring telework and (iii) the use of cloud computing (see our previous post ). The CNIL will verify the conditions of appointment and modalities of exercise of the DPO function. management of data subjects’ rights).

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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, if a hospital’s computer system isn’t regularly updated, it can be more vulnerable to security and cyber attacks.

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Data Protection: Where’s the Brexit Privacy Dividend?

Data Protector

Removing the UK from the decision-making structures of the EU should also result in the UK Government feeling able to update other privacy legislation, such as the outdated Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulations, without having to delay for years and years until EU countries managed to reach a political consensus on the way ahead.

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U.S. Supreme Court to Weigh in on Extraterritorial Search Warrant Dispute

Data Matters

The decision now under review held that electronic communications that are stored exclusively on foreign servers cannot be reached by U.S. In a concurring opinion, Judge Lynch urged Congress to revise the SCA and adopt a “more complex balancing exercise” in place of the “all-or-nothing” approach that emerged from the court’s analysis.

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Banking on mainframe-led digital transformation for financial services

IBM Big Data Hub

Before the internet and cloud computing , and before smartphones and mobile apps, banks were shuttling payments through massive electronic settlement gateways and operating mainframes as systems of record. Complex analytical queries atop huge datasets on the mainframe can eat up compute budgets and take hours or days to run.

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What is data loss and how does it work?

IT Governance

Reminding employees to exercise caution and to back up information wherever possible will mitigate this risk. Unlike desktop computers, laptops don’t have extra covers to protect them from water damage, which increases your risk of electronic components short circuiting. Computer viruses.

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