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.”
Minnesota could add health information as a form of sensitive data and toughen limits for sensitive data more broadly under its comprehensive privacy law, a privacy attorney said Tuesday. Rep. Steve Elkins (D), author of the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act, introduced HB-2700 Monday to amend the act before it takes effect in July. Sensitive data requires opt-in consent under the Minnesota law, unlike other personal data that carries an opt-out standard.
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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.
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.
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.
Florida, Texas, Arkansas and Missouri should investigate data privacy claims at crisis pregnancy centers in their states, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said Thursday.
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Legislators from other states have told Vermont Rep. Monique Priestley (D) that they'd like to see someone enact a comprehensive privacy law with a private right of action (PRA), Priestley said in a livestreamed interview Tuesday with Daniel Solove, a George Washington University Law School professor.