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CMS Releases Updated HIPAA Security Risk Analysis Tipsheet for EHR Meaningful Use Program

December 31, 2013 By Privacy & Data Security Team

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), in conjunction with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has recently issued an updated tipsheet on conducting a security risk assessment for health care providers participating in CMS’s Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Programs.  To receive incentive payments through the program, providers must demonstrate meaningful use […]

Filed Under: Health Privacy, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: Health Information Security, HIPAA, HITECH

NIST’s Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework Could Have Broad Implications for Critical, Non-Critical Infrastructure Alike

December 16, 2013 By Kimberly Peretti

On October 22, 2013, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework (“Framework”), marking one of the final steps in creating the “voluntary” Framework envisioned in an Obama Administration Executive Order (EO) issued earlier this year. That EO, which was designed to strengthen the cybersecurity of the United States’ critical […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Cyber Risk, Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Protection, Data Security, Enforcement, Privacy, Regulation, Security Breach Tagged With: Cybersecurity Executive Order, The White House

Department of Defense Publishes Safeguarding Rule Requiring Contractors to Follow NIST Security Standards, Report Cybersecurity Incidents

November 22, 2013 By Privacy & Data Security Team

On November 18, the U.S. Department of Defense (“DoD”) published a final safeguarding rule (the “UCTI Safeguarding Rule”) applicable to contractors in possession of unclassified yet nonpublic technical information (“UCTI”) that requires them to, at a minimum, satisfy the security controls specified in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53 in order to safeguard UCTI. Additionally, the UCTI Safeguarding […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Security, Regulation Tagged With: National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)

A+B Privacy Litigation Partner Dominique Shelton Quoted by BNA Bloomberg “Privacy Law Watch”

October 11, 2013 By Privacy & Data Security Team

Several comments made by Dominique Shelton, a partner in the firm’s Litigation & Trial Practice Group, as part of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Privacy Academy in Bellevue, Washington, were included in a BNA Bloomberg Privacy Law Watch article discussing the conference panelists’ discussion on achieving mobile privacy compliance goals. As moderator, Shelton noted that […]

Filed Under: Data Security, Mobile Privacy, Online Privacy, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

California Adopts Do-Not-Track Disclosure Law: A.B. 370 Amends the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) to Require New Privacy Policy Disclosures for Websites, Online Services and Mobile Apps about Behavioral Tracking

September 20, 2013 By Privacy & Data Security Team

California Governor Brown is preparing to sign into law a new online privacy bill (A.B. 370) approved unanimously (78-0) by the California Assembly on August 26, 2013, having previously passed the California Senate by a vote of 37-0 (with 2 non-votes recorded). The Governor is expected to sign the bill before the expiration of the signing […]

Filed Under: Behavioral Advertising, Children's Privacy, Legislation, Mobile Privacy, Online Privacy, Privacy, Regulation Tagged With: Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), US State Law

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