article thumbnail

Data Protection: Where’s the Brexit Privacy Dividend?

Data Protector

No longer might UK privacy pros feel obliged to wait for the publication of weirdly worded EDPB opinions. Enormous amounts of money have been spent in a belated acknowledgement of, in many cases, decades of under investment on privacy issues. The GDPR has had a profound impact on many organisations. Was such a fine really appropriate?

Privacy 156
article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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 ). This document provides guidance on the conditions applicable to the use of this technology which presents high risks to the data subjects’ right to privacy.

article thumbnail

Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensures individuals’ health data protection and privacy. It’s all about creating the perfect balance between optimal medical services while upholding patient privacy. This breach of privacy could harm the patient and cause consequences for the hospital.

article thumbnail

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

Data Matters

government’s request for review of a lower court decision that rejected the government’s construction of the Stored Communications Act (SCA) and embraced a more restrictive view that Microsoft had advanced, backed by much of the tech industry and many privacy groups. officials, by using computers and personnel based in the United States.

article thumbnail

MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

Related: How the Middle East has advanced mobile security regulations Over the past couple of decades, meaningful initiatives to improve online privacy and security, for both companies and consumers, incrementally gained traction in the tech sector and among key regulatory agencies across Europe, the Middle East and North America.

article thumbnail

The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

With the proliferation of social media platforms and other new technologies has come a renewed legal focus on privacy. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? But what about other contexts? In this essay, Robert D.

Privacy 97