Increased FTC enforcement and expanding state regulatory requirements mean it's crucial that advertisers ensure their consumer health data activity complies with consumer privacy laws, said panelists during a Wiley health advertising webinar Tuesday.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation applauded Montana for being the first state to close a “data broker loophole” for law enforcement. Separately, Cooley lawyers noted Montana's leadership role among states in crafting the country's third neural privacy law.
A New York state reproductive health privacy bill will reach the Senate floor. Despite Republican opposition, the Senate Health Committee cleared S-1633 at a livestreamed hearing Tuesday.
While a longstanding federal health law doesn't cover as much data as some people think, more recent state measures may be overcompensating and over-complicating health care privacy, said WilmerHale privacy attorney Kirk Nahra on a Tuesday webinar. Daniel Solove, George Washington University Law professor, predicted “we're going to see ... this complicated landscape get even more complicated.”
Massachusetts senators advanced a comprehensive privacy bill that includes a private right of action and Maryland-like data-minimization requirements. On Monday, the Senate side of the legislature’s joint Advanced Information Technology Committee advanced to the Ways and Means Committee a new draft of the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act (S-2516) that replaces bills by the committee’s Senate Chair Michael Moore (D), Senate Majority Leader Cynthia Creem (D) and Sen. William Driscoll (D). Some alternatives remain pending, including legislation by Sen. Barry Finegold (D), his spokesperson told Privacy Daily.
Rhode Island senators unanimously supported regulating consumer genetic testing services. The state's Senate voted 35-0 Thursday to pass a genetic information privacy bill (S-767). The House referred the bill to its Judiciary Committee on Friday. However, an Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) attorney said Friday that the consent-based bill doesn't do enough to protect consumers.
The global health care and life sciences sectors face major regulatory challenges in the U.S. and Europe from data transfer and cybersecurity laws, speakers said Thursday during an IAPP webinar.
Regulators should apply “extra scrutiny to menstruation apps because they may process and collect highly sensitive health data that requires additional protections and safety measures,” Privacy International (PI) said Tuesday in a report on the privacy of period-tracking apps.
Oracle Health was sued for allegedly sharing the private health information of two patients with Google via the corporation’s marketing systems without patient knowledge or consent. Filed last week, the class-action lawsuit argued Oracle violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule.
A possible Vermont version of Daniel’s Law (H-342) is “not dead, but it is not moving,” state Rep. Monique Priestley (D) said Thursday on Vermont Perspective, a radio show on WDEV. After the show, Priestley told us in a phone interview that another piece of legislation, her comprehensive privacy bill, remains “very much in play.”