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An English-Language Primer on Germany’s GDPR Implementation Statute: Part 4 of 5

October 10, 2017 By Daniel Felz

Over the past year, the German government has been working on legislation to implement the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  On July 6, 2017, Germany did so by passing a statute titled the Data Protection Amendments and Implementation Act. The Act repeals Germany’s venerated Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, or BDSG) and replaces it […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, GDPR, Germany, Health Privacy, International, Legislation, Online Privacy, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), GDPR, GDPR Implementation

An English-Language Primer on Germany’s GDPR Implementation Statute: Part 2 of 5

September 25, 2017 By Daniel Felz

Over the past year, the German government has been working on legislation to implement the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  On July 6, 2017, Germany did so by passing a statute titled the Data Protection Amendments and Implementation Act. The Act repeals Germany’s venerated Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, or BDSG) and replaces it […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, GDPR, Germany, Health Privacy, International, Legislation Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), GDPR, GDPR Implementation

An English-Language Primer on Germany’s GDPR Implementation Statute: Part 1 of 5

September 19, 2017 By Daniel Felz

Over the past year, the German government has been working on legislation to implement the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).  On July 6, 2017, Germany did so by passing a statute titled the Data Protection Amendments and Implementation Act. The Act repeals Germany’s venerated Federal Data Protection Act (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, or BDSG) and replaces it […]

Filed Under: Data Protection, GDPR, Germany, Health Privacy, International, Legislation Tagged With: EU Data Protection, EU Regulation, European Union (EU), GDPR, GDPR Implementation

Anthem Settles Data Breach Litigation for Record-Setting $115M

June 27, 2017 By Andrew Liebler

Health insurance giant Anthem, Inc. agreed to the largest data breach settlement to-date last week, ending multi-district consumer litigation over a 2015 data breach for $115 million.  The data breach, which resulted from a hacker-orchestrated cyberattack following the theft of an employee password, exposed personally identifiable information (“PII”) and protected health information (“PHI”) of nearly […]

Filed Under: Data Breach, Health Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Security Breach Tagged With: Class Action, Health Information Security, HIPAA

Advocate Health Care Network Agrees to Pay $5.55 Million to Settle Potential HIPAA Penalties

August 5, 2016 By HIPAA Privacy & Security Team

On August 4, 2016, the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) announced that Advocate Health Care Network (“Advocate”), Illinois’ largest fully-integrated health care system, has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5.55 million to settle claims of multiple Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) violations involving electronic protected health information (“ePHI”).  The substantial settlement stems from […]

Filed Under: Data Breach, Enforcement, Health Privacy, Privacy Tagged With: HIPAA

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