Many healthcare sector entities are undertaking projects involving the collection, analysis and sharing of large volumes of health data. But along with those efforts come critical privacy and security concerns, says attorney Iliana Peters of Polsinelli.
Privitar bought regulatory intelligence provider Kormoon to reduce the cost and risk associated with compliance across multiple jurisdictions via automation. Kormoon's codified repository of data privacy rules across 46 jurisdictions globally will inform and automate policies on Privitar's platform.
Please don't pay ransoms, authorities continue to urge. Britain's lead cyber agency and privacy watchdog are now making that appeal directly to legal advisers, warning them that paying a ransom offers no data protection upsides and won't lessen any fine they might face.
The Biden administration continues to react to the Supreme Court's overturn of precedent guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion, issuing Friday an executive order that includes provisions to help safeguard the privacy of patients' data.
Google's move to soon begin deleting location history pertaining to individuals' visits to facilities offering sensitive healthcare services is a step in the right direction, but experts say technology firms and others could do more to better protect the privacy of health data.
A misconfigured Alibaba private cloud server has led to the leak of around 1 billion Chinese nationals' personal details. An unknown hacker, identified as "ChinaDan," posted an advertisement on a hacker forum selling 23 terabytes of data for 10 bitcoins, equivalent to about $200,000.
A rise in remote employees and an increased reliance on SaaS applications create new, wider gaps in security. It’s more challenging to protect users at the edge. In this preview of an upcoming webinar, Cisco's Mike Storm discusses how to increase security and reduce complexity.
Location data, browser history, IP addresses, and appointment scheduling are among the sensitive data putting individuals' privacy at risk in the wake of the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, says Alexandra Reeve Givens of the Center for Democracy and Technology.
Federal regulators issued health privacy guidance for medical providers and patients and promised to make privacy violations a top HIPAA enforcement priority in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the five-decade precedent that guaranteed nationwide access to abortion.
Italy joined France and Austria in warning domestic companies to shy away from Google Analytics. The decision by the Italian data protection authority highlights ongoing legal uncertainty concerning trans-Atlantic transfers of commercial data.
Determine how the NIST Framework can fit into your security structure and start taking proactive steps to protect critical assets from rising and evolving threats.
Four ISMG editors discuss important cybersecurity issues, including how Canada's Desjardins Group settled a data breach lawsuit for $155 million, how Facebook is being sued after allegedly violating patient privacy, and highlights from ISMG's Northeast Summit held in New York this week.
A malware incident involving exfiltration of data has affected more than 1.24 million patients of Texas-based Baptist Medical Center and Resolute Health Hospital. It adds to a growing list of major health data breaches reported to regulators in recent weeks as affecting millions of individuals.
In the latest "Proof of Concept," Lisa Sotto of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP and former CISO David Pollino of PNC Bank join ISMG editors to discuss the many new privacy laws in the U.S., current ransomware and scam trends, and handling the potential corporate risk of sharing information on social media.
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