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The passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was a seismic event in U.S. data privacy law.

A recent report from the Mass Digital Health Council includes a cybersecurity toolkit created by MDHC's Cybersecurity Group of Experts (CGE).

Today, in the first settlement of its kind, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("OCR") announced that Bayfront

Every click, share, send, and post you make creates a digital trail that can be exploited by cybercriminals.

If you are doing business in California, the way you handle personal data could soon change in significant ways. The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA")

In a Notification of Enforcement Discretion Regarding HIPAA Civil Money Penalties issued on April 23, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Imagine this scenario: you've had a productive and mutually advantageous ongoing contractual relationship of several years with another party.

Editors' Note: This is the seventh and last in our third annual series examining important trends in data privacy and cybersecurity during the new year.

On January 10, 2019, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed a new law that amends its data breach reporting law, and requires credit reporting agencies such as Equifax to provide a free credit freeze to consumers.

Happy New Year! While you are making (and soon breaking) your resolutions, here's another lifestyle change to consider for 2019: putting your car fob in foil at night before you go to sleep.

The concept that one is known by the company one keeps dates back to ancient times

Allergy Associates of Hartford, P.C., has agreed to pay $125,000 to the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and to adopt a corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule.

Partner Colin Zick recently presented at the MaHIMA Dot Wagg Legislative Seminar discussing recent HIPAA violations, how GDPR will impact US companies and the Trusted Exchange Framework.

A recent hack of Obamacare enrollment records might result in a full-blown privacy investigation of the government agency that is responsible for the federal health-care exchange and serve as a wake-up call to the government.