The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated its Health Breach Notification Rule that applies to non-HIPAA, consumer health data. Among the revisions, the FTC expanded or introduced key definitions and modified the...more
7/31/2024
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The average cost of a data breach has reached an all-time high of $4.45 million, according to IBM. Regulatory requirements, scrutiny, and enforcement have continued to expand. As we kick off 2024, here are the key action...more
Connecticut is the third state to adopt consumer health data privacy protections, following Washington’s My Health My Data Act (“MHMD”) and Nevada’s new consumer health data privacy law. It is the first state, however, to...more
The Nevada legislature recently passed Senate Bill 370 (“Nevada’s Consumer Health Data Privacy Law”) aiming to impose broad requirements on collecting, using, and selling consumer health information. Nevada joins Washington...more
In early October, the United States (“U.S.”) and European Union (“EU”) came one step closer to the much-awaited new EU-US Data Privacy Framework (the “Framework”), designed to facilitate transatlantic data flows between the...more
10/26/2022
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The last year has seen a multijurisdictional regulatory push for increased cybersecurity standards for medical devices. The new approaches, issued by regulatory authorities in the United States (U.S.), the United Kingdom (UK)...more
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) released a “Sharing Cyber Event Information” Fact Sheet on April 7 that may preview its implementation of the new federal government cyber incident reporting...more
The United States ("U.S.") and the European Commission ("EU Commission") recently announced an “agreement in principle” to develop a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (“Framework”). The Framework is intended to...more
To help your company get its United States (U.S.) state privacy compliance program on the right track in 2022, Orrick's Cyber' Privacy & Data Innovation Group has analyzed the differences between key topics for the California...more
3/15/2022
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