Today, the law of the land concerning the privacy of individuals’ health information is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and more specifically, the HIPAA Privacy Rule. But one need only take a cursory look at the name of the underlying law (Health Insurance Portability…) to glean that [...]
Because good things come in threes, the European Commission (EC) released no fewer than three important documents related to its plans to make Europe “fit for the digital age” on February 19, 2020. These documents include a Communication entitled “Shaping Europe’s Digital Future”, the “European Strategy for Data” and the [...]
If you checked your email inbox lately you will realize that the long-awaited California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is officially in effect. As a result, virtually every company with a national footprint must now comply with a long list of new requirements that fundamentally change the business-consumer relationship, as well [...]
As my colleague observed in a recent piece, while 2019 did not quite pan out as the “year of privacy” that some predicted, lawmakers did achieve significant progress last year. In fact, Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) of the Senate Commerce Committee each recently unveiled [...]
After nearly a year of little movement, Congress made major moves towards public drafts of bills to create a federal law on consumer data and privacy protection. This week ACT | The App Association is publishing a two part series on these legislative drafts and what the text really means [...]