California's Oct. 30 settlement with Sling TV reinforced that regulators are focused on opt-out processes and children’s data, while revealing that they are looking more closely at how privacy choices influence the consumer experience, privacy lawyers said afterward.
Nearly 75% of health care employees are shadow using AI, resulting in more than 80% of data policy infractions, a panelist said during the Health Care Compliance Association event Wednesday. Accordingly, providers should directly address the issue with staff immediately and implement measures that make employees' AI tools less of a privacy risk.
Focusing on trends can be a helpful way for health care companies to anticipate coming privacy laws and future compliance needs, said Kyle Rene, Whiteford Taylor lawyer, at a Health Care Compliance Association event Wednesday.
When immigration enforcement and patient privacy collide, health care providers must remember that HIPAA's view of personal health information (PHI) is broad, Davis Wright's Adam Greene told a Health Care Compliance Association event Wednesday.
Noting that many judges aren't technology experts, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Patrick Higginbotham expressed concern Monday that many legal issues are decided using court documents instead of jury trials. “One of the frustrations” that stems from long-running litigation is that “a trial judge … never got to hear the full evidence,” he said during oral argument in CCIA v. Paxton.
SAN DIEGO -- States, especially those with consumer privacy laws coming online soon, are bolstering their privacy and consumer protection enforcement by beginning to onboard additional attorneys and technologists, experts said during a panel at IAPP's privacy and security conference Friday.
SAN DIEGO -- Companies are good at policing each other to ensure a “trust ecosystem” exists, said Julie Brill, expert in residence at Harvard Law School Innovation Labs and former chief privacy officer at Microsoft (see 2505300023). She was a keynote speaker during the IAPP's privacy and security conference Friday.
SAN DIEGO -- Companies that want to avoid enforcement settlements and penalties should collaborate with state regulators during an investigation and whenever authorities are seeking information, officials from California, Colorado, Delaware and Indiana said during a panel at IAPP's privacy and security conference Thursday. The states are all members of the bipartisan Consortium of Privacy Regulators (see 2506020004).
SAN DIEGO – “Privacy should be easy” for businesses to implement and consumers to effectuate, said Tom Kemp, executive director of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), during the closing keynote at IAPP's privacy and security conference Friday. At a panel Thursday, other CPPA employees spoke about regulations aimed at making privacy and privacy rights easier.
SAN DIEGO -- In its fifth major enforcement action under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the state's DOJ announced a $530,000 settlement with streaming platform Sling TV, which cited the company's complicated and confusing opt-out mechanisms (see 2510300040).