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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.
Privacy Daily is providing readers with the top stories from last week, in case you missed them. All articles can be found by searching on the title or by clicking on the hyperlinked reference number.
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.
A Pennsylvania House Committee teed up a potentially imminent floor vote on a comprehensive privacy bill. The Commerce Committee voted unanimously by voice Tuesday to advance HB-78 to the floor. At a livestreamed meeting, the committee also adopted by voice an amendment to delay by six months the proposed effective date to one year after it’s enacted.
Digital advertisers "are still grappling with defining the boundaries of sensitive personal information, such as health data and minors’ information,” according to an Interactive Advertising Bureau survey released Monday.
Kentucky tweaked its comprehensive privacy law to flesh out an exemption for data subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Gov. Andy Beshear (D) signed the amendment (HB-473) to the 2024 privacy law Saturday after it passed the legislature unanimously (see 2503130017).