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.
While states are increasingly coordinating their privacy bills, Maine Rep. Amy Kuhn (D) is unwilling to "prioritize interoperability to the point where we’re agreeing on the lowest common denominator,” the House chair of the state legislature’s Judiciary Committee told Privacy Daily this week. Instead, Kuhn wants to focus on what’s good for consumers, small businesses, and “not so much Big Tech.”
Expect House floor consideration for the Kids Online Safety Act and the Take It Down Act, House Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said Wednesday.
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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.
Connecticut Sen. James Maroney (D) took the middle ground in a private right of action (PRA) debate between Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark (D) and Mariner Strategies President Andrew Kingman at a Federal Communications Bar Association New England event Tuesday. The panelists agreed that a national comprehensive privacy law is unlikely soon.
The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) board plans to meet April 4 at 8:30 a.m. PT to discuss and possibly act on proposed regulations on automated decision-making technology (ADMT), cybersecurity audits, insurance and other California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) rule updates, the agency said Monday. The CPPA unveiled draft rules revisions -- and plans to discuss bigger possible changes -- in meeting materials released the same day.
The FTC will update its children’s privacy rules in “some form” that complies with President Donald Trump’s regulatory agenda, Chairman Andrew Ferguson told us Tuesday.
Priorities for Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner include addressing the privacy impacts of fast-moving technological developments and ensuring that children's privacy is protected, the OPC said in a Friday report setting out the results of a consultation on age assurance.
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.