The Senate Committee on Appropriations unveiled COVID-19 relief legislation this week, which would allocate $53 million in funds to the Department of Homeland Security...
More than one out of 10 ransomware attacks results in data theft, increasing the risk of data loss, business interruption, regulatory penalties, legal harm, and reputational damage, according to...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Manatt Health recently released a consumer Health Data Privacy Framework designed to address some of the gaps in existing health data privacy...
Contact tracing app initiatives have emerged in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, as a modern enhancement to traditional methods for tracking the spread of the virus, finding new infections, and...
A group of Congressional Democrats proposed privacy legislation designed ensure the privacy and security of proposed COVID-19 contact tracing apps. Senate Republicans released a competing privacy bill...
The American Medical Association unveiled a set of privacy principles for non-HIPAA covered entities, designed to empower consumers with more control over the health data collected about them. AMA will...
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking comment from industry stakeholders on breach notification requirements for entities that collect personally identifiable health information but aren’t...
Zoom settled with New York Attorney General Letitia James on May 7, following a state-led investigation into the videoconferencing platform. James launched an investigation after a number of privacy...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation are joining the call urging COVID-19 contact tracing app developers to consider the potential privacy and security risks posed by these technologies, while warning no...
Apple recently announced the launch of a new COVID-19 screening app and website based on guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In response, a group of Senators are looking into...
NIST released several draft frameworks for comment over the last week focused around integrating cybersecurity and enterprise risk management and managing enterprise mobile device security, along with...
Thirteen civil-society groups are urging Congress to keep patient privacy protections center stage in any drafted Coronavirus relief packages, and any waivers of these protections must exclusively...
A group of Democratic Senators are raising concerns about the potential Google COVID-19 screening website over possible privacy and cybersecurity risks, after the Trump Administration announced Google...
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, released his spin on federal privacy legislation on March 12 that would establish a national privacy standard and preempt state privacy laws, after bipartisan talks came to...
Sens. Bill Cassidy, MD, R-Louisiana, Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, and Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, are pressing Ascension on its data sharing agreement it holds with Google, given the tech...
Sens. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, and Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, reintroduced the Protecting Jessica Grubbs Legacy Act, a privacy bill designed to modernize 42 CFR Part 2 regulations to...
The US District Court in New Jersey issued a final approval of a class-action lawsuit settlement between Quest Diagnostics and the patients impacted by a 2016 data breach. The testing giant will pay...
The majority of healthcare providers are overconfident in their ability to control data sharing and the security of their data storage, according to a new report from Netwrix.
Netwrix surveyed 1,045...
IT security practitioners routinely engage in risky password and authentication practices. And there’s a misalignment between expectations and reality when it comes to the implementation of...
The University of Washington Medicine is facing a class-action lawsuit following its disclosure of a patient data breach that impacted 974,00 patients.
According to the lawsuit filed in the King...
