Effective healthcare cyber incident response and preparedness require strong collaboration between security and privacy teams. Privacy and security experts can leverage one another’s expertise to effectively reduce risk and champion...
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) submitted comments to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) surrounding the Commission’s Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking...
After years of fruitless attempts to enact nationwide data privacy legislation, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) has instilled a new sense of optimism into many privacy professionals who have been championing this type...
California Governor Gavin Newsom enacted two new bills into law that have implications for abortion data privacy within the state.
As previously reported, the California State Legislature passed...
Law firm Warner Norcross & Judd (WNJ) reported a data security incident to HHS that impacted 255,160 individuals. WNJ discovered unauthorized activity on some of its systems in October 2021 and...
Researchers discovered third-party tracking tools on the majority of analyzed abortion clinic websites, raising data privacy concerns, according to a research letter published in JAMA Internal...
The California State Legislature passed a bill (AB 1242) that would protect abortion data privacy by preventing out-of-state law enforcement officers from executing search warrants on California-based...
A group of US House Democrats from the Committee on Energy and Commerce sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking for clarification on the company’s data privacy practices.
“We...
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sued data broker Kochava over its alleged sale of geolocation data, signifying the Commission’s commitment to cracking down on improper location and health...
More healthcare organizations are engaging with healthcare cybersecurity and data privacy consulting vendors to help mitigate risk and avoid the numerous repercussions of healthcare cyberattacks, data...
Idaho-based Kochava, a data marketing and analytics company, filed a lawsuit against the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and denied the Commission's allegations of the company’s improper...
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asking it to investigate Amazon’s plans to purchase primary care organization One Medical, citing health data...
Meta is facing another lawsuit over its health data privacy practices. As previously reported, a report co-published by The Markup and STAT alleged that Meta (the parent company of Facebook)...
Three-quarters of surveyed patients expressed significant health data privacy concerns and confusion about how their health information is handled, the American Medical Association (AMA) discovered....
In a blog post, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) expressed its intentions to enforce against improper and illegal consumer location and health data privacy practices.
Written by Kristen Cohen,...
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform sent letters to five data brokers and five health apps as part of an investigation into their reproductive health data privacy practices. Led by Rep. Carolyn...
President Biden released an “Executive Order on Protecting Access to Reproductive Healthcare Services,” which addressed patient privacy protections and stressed the importance of abortion...
HIPAA clashes with patient privacy and health data protections relating to newly imposed abortion restrictions in several major ways, experts suggested in a recent JAMA Health Forum article. The...
Google announced plans to heighten its data privacy practices and said it would delete location history when users visit abortion clinics, domestic violence shelters, fertility centers, weight loss...
In letters to Talkspace and BetterHelp, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) urged the leading mental health apps to provide clarification on their patient data...
