In late January, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Healthcare & Public Health Sector Coordinating Council issued a new cybersecurity guidance document for healthcare businesses of all sizes. The guidance document, entitled “Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients,” available at https://www.phe.gov/Preparedness/planning/405d/Pages/hic-practices.aspx, provides concrete and practical guidance for addressing what the Council has identified as the “most impactful threats . . . within the industry” and serves as a renewed call to action for implementation of appropriate cybersecurity practices. This document is critical reading for healthcare business managers faced with ever-increasing cybersecurity risks and the attending risks to patient safety and operational continuity, business reputation, financial stability, and regulatory compliance.
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The Senate Commerce Committee held a second hearing on consumer data privacy, this time with privacy advocates
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This past Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee held another hearing on consumer data privacy, this time giving voice to prominent privacy advocates. Previous testimony in September from leading technology businesses focused on concerns with the complexity of having to comply with a patchwork of different state privacy regulations, broad definitions of “personal information” in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and a desire to see Federal legislation enacted that would preempt state laws and create a single, unified US privacy law.
While a national privacy law would simplify compliance, in Wednesday’s hearing Nuala O’Connor, the President and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, cautioned the committee that the “price of preemption would be very, very high”, and Laura Moy, Executive Director and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology, laid out in her written testimony six strong recommendations that we should expect to see in any proposed national standard:
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NIST announces project to develop new Privacy Framework
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The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced recently that it has launched a collaborative project to develop a voluntary privacy framework to help organizations manage risk. According to NIST Director Walter G. Copan, “The development of a privacy framework through an open process of stakeholder engagement is intended to…
Email tracking services – are they really worth it?
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As illustrated in this recent article in Wired, email tracking services and their counterparts, anti-tracking services, have been rapidly gaining ground on the web; to the point that 40% of all email being sent, and 99% of the majority of the emails you receive (newsletters, marketing materials, notifications and transactional emails) are now being…
The more people interact with AI, the more they like it – but that doesn’t diminish their privacy fears
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According to a recent Genpact study:
- Nearly two-thirds of consumers (63%) are worried that Artificial Intelligence is going to make decisions that will impact their lives without their knowledge
- Less than one-third (30%) are at least “fairly comfortable” with the idea of companies using AI to access their personal data
- Almost three-quarters (71%) say
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CNIL’s GUIDANCE FOR PROCESSORS – ANSWERS TO YOUR MOST PRESSING QUESTIONS
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See European Regulation on the Protection of Personal Data Guide Sub-Contractor Edition, September 2017.
- Are you a contractor within the meaning of European Regulation on data protection?
- Are you subject to EU regulation on data protection?
- What is the main change introduced by the European regulation for contractors?
- What are your obligations as of
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PIAs & DETERMINATION OF RISK UNDER GDPR – THE LATEST:
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The Article 29 Working Party updated the Guidelines on PIAs and evaluation of risk guidance on October 4, 2017:
CNIL created a PIA Infography to outline the main principles. Keep…
Big Data is amazingly useful … and risky
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Per the Freedom of Information Act, US citizens have the right to access information from the federal government. We can visit Data.gov to search the more than 197,000 current datasets currently indexed on the site. While the intent is to leverage that data for the public good, there’s also an enormous amount of information …
Your Car and GDPR
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CNIL, the French DPA, published a new Compliance Pack called “Connected Vehicles: A Compliance Pack for Responsible Data Use” on October 17, 2017. CNIL broke its guidance into three scenarios:
- Personal data remains in the car
- Personal data is transmitted externally to provide a service to the individual
- Personal data is transmitted outside
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GDPR Data Breach & Profiling Guidelines and last chance to comment!
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The Article 29 Working Party published two Guidelines related to GDPR:
Guidelines on Personal data breach notification under Regulation 2016/679, wp250
The Guidelines are open for comments until November, 28, 2017. Comments should be sent to JUST-ARTICLE29WP-SEC@ec.europa.eu and presidenceg29@cnil.fr.