Partner Kim Peretti and Senior Associate Kelley Barnaby of Alston and Bird’s Privacy and Data Security Team and Litigation and Trial Practice group have authored a Cyber Alert, “International Data Breach Investigations in a Post-Snowden World – Evolving Legal Obligations and Investigatory Challenges,” with E.J. Hilbert of Kroll. In this article Peretti and Barnaby discuss the evolving international obligations […]
HIPAA Audit Program Returning?
We previously blogged about the Office for Civil Rights’ (OCR) HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Audit Program (HIPAA Audit Program) on November 30, 2011, March 7, 2012, and June 26, 2012. On Monday, OCR published a notice in the Federal Register in which it essentially announces the return of its HIPAA Audit Program. In the notice, […]
OCR Issues New Guidance on the HIPAA Privacy Rule and Sharing of Mental Health Information
Late last week, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published guidance designed to help health care providers understand when, consistent with the HIPAA Privacy Rule, they may share information related to a patient’s mental health with others. As we have previously written, HHS seeks to balance a patient’s privacy rights in mental health records […]
FTC Denies LabMD’s Motion to Dismiss
The FTC – in a decision that should surprise no one – refused to dismiss its administrative complaint (“Complaint”) against LabMD. This case – like the FTC’s case against Wyndham Worldwide – illustrates the continuing fight regarding the scope of the FTC’s power for regulate inadequate data security practices. In particular, this decision is important because it […]
Complimentary Seminar – Payment Card Breaches: How to Prepare, How to Survive – March 5, 2014
Please join Alston & Bird, Dell SecureWorks and AIG for a discussion on how to prepare for and respond to payment card breaches. Recent payment card breaches in the retail industry have highlighted the need to fully prepare for similar types of attacks, both in terms of increasing security controls where appropriate and enhancing incident […]