With the Massachusetts Data Privacy Law now in place (and presumably you are in compliance with it), you need to think about what to do if you have an incident. Verizon has published the Verizon Incident Sharing Framework to help. Our goal for our customers, friends, and anyone responsible for incident response, is to be … Read more »
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National Data Privacy Laws Move Forward
With last week’s further revisions to the Massachusetts Data Privacy Law [Massachusetts Amends Its Strict Data Privacy Law (Yet, Again)], people are wondering if the federal government is going to step into the space and create a national standard. Most states have enacted some form of data breach or data privacy law, crating patchwork of … Read more »
National Data Privacy Law Proposed
With a multitude of states trying to protect their citizens when it comes to breaches of personal data security, it is becoming increasingly difficult to manage compliance with this patchwork of laws. The Data Accountability and Trust Act (H.R. 2221) proposed in Congress proposed to preempt state laws and make regulation of data security a … Read more »
The HITECH Act
I sat in a webinar on CyberSecurity Law: The Best Offense is a Good Defense sponsored by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. One aspect of the presentation was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act. This created the first federal data breach notification law. It also substantially revised HIPAA regulations regarding privacy … Read more »