With emerging technologies and issues in the health care space, the role of privacy officers must also evolve and adapt to stay relevant in a changing landscape, said a panel of privacy leaders during the National HIPAA Summit Thursday.
Preparation and understanding issues are key when responding to data breaches in the healthcare sector, said state privacy officials during a panel on federal and state enforcement of privacy and security violations at the National HIPAA Summit Wednesday.
States must step in to protect healthcare privacy when the federal administration is likely to try and undermine the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's (HIPAA) Privacy Rule, said privacy lawyers in a keynote fireside chat on the politics of healthcare privacy at the National HIPAA Summit Tuesday.
The bankruptcy of biotechnology company 23andMe is raising privacy concerns about the future of customers' sensitive genetic data. Democratic and Republican state AGs and the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office said they're monitoring the situation.
When thinking about global partnerships, especially those in research and emerging technology, the U.S. must ensure that privacy and security are balanced with the need for effective collaboration, Don Graves, former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, told the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute Friday.
Given the expanding universe of state privacy laws, often with different requirements, a reasonable compliance approach is to follow the most stringent law, a panel of privacy lawyers said during the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute Friday. It's likely that the strictest law will cover other states' requirements, they said.
Though the global flow of data and information is the basis for so many systems, having protections that ensure foreign adversaries and other bad actors can’t gain access to the data is crucial, said a panel of privacy lawyers and security experts at the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute Friday. Accordingly, Justice's new data transfer rule is playing a major role, panelists said.
The emergence of state privacy laws means that there are several standards or policies that companies and businesses must follow when defining and de-identifying sensitive information, said a panel of experts at the American Bar Association's Privacy and Emerging Technology National Institute event Thursday.
These are good and bad times for privacy protection, Daniel Solove, a lawyer and professor at George Washington Law School, said Thursday. Though the creation of data-protection laws is moving faster than ever, we live in a "privacy paradox" where individuals often don't understand intentionally confusing privacy laws yet are tasked with policing their data, he said.
Oregon lawmakers weighed whether to update the state’s data privacy laws during a hearing on two data privacy bills Tuesday in the House Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection.