By Krishna Jani, Flaster Greenberg On Nov. 30, 2021, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the resolution of five investigations in its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Right of Access Initiative. This brings the total number of this type of
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By Jennifer K. Wagner On September 15, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Policy Statement “On Breaches by Health Apps and Other Connected Devices,” the most recent step taken by the FTC to signal its interest in preventing abusive data practices and ensuring relevant consumer protections for digital health. This step came about
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By Anokhy Desai On September 8, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approved “largely technical” changes to five Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) rules that narrowed their scope to only apply to motor vehicle dealers, decreasing confusion for applicable entities that must look to the FTC or Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for guidance on
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By Krishna Jani, Flaster Greenberg In July 2021, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) voted to approve the Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (UPDPA). The UPDPA is a model data privacy bill designed to provide a template for states to introduce to their own legislatures, and ultimately, adopt as binding law. The UPDPA The
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By Anokhy Desai A few weeks ago, U.S. District Judge William Stickman IV of the Western District of Pennsylvania held that there was no interception of communication per the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act (WESCA) when a third-party company collected data from a user’s browser as she visited another website, writing that
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