On October 29, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy (ASTP) released a fact sheet titled “Information Blocking Reminders Related to API Technology.” The fact...more
Sometimes defining the simplest phrases proves anything but simple. So learned the insurer in a property loss and bad faith case brought by its insured and decided earlier this year by the Pennsylvania Superior Court...more
With a growing number of states having passed comprehensive consumer data privacy laws (19 in total, with seven passed this year alone), state enforcement actions related to data privacy are growing increasingly common....more
Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. (Google) moved to dismiss a third successive complaint that alleged it tied the sales of Maps, Routes and Places application programming interface (API) services to one another. A basic tying...more
On December 13, 2022, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued a proposed rule, titled Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes (“Proposed Rule”), to improve patient and...more
On January 17, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization final rule (Final Rule) (fact sheet, CMS’ interoperability website), which aims to improve prior...more
Over 200,000 companies use Zendesk to drive better customer experiences. Featuring a fully integrated ticketing system and generative AI-powered bots, Zendesk helps businesses automate and strengthen their support efforts...more
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has seemingly infiltrated every aspect of corporate America, and organizations’ legal, compliance, and human resources departments are understandably struggling to keep pace with its...more
On August 8, the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) issued a press release providing additional information on its Novel Activities Supervision Program (Program) to monitor novel activities in the banks it oversees. Novel activities...more
Join Anna Simpson, Senior Director of Product Management at Box, and John Price, Technical Success Manager at Onna, as they highlight and demonstrate best practices for eDiscovery on Box....more
Many people were disappointed when the most-watched copyright case of the past 10 years, Oracle’s lawsuit against Google over Google’s copying Java application programming interface (API) code, failed to yield better guidance...more
Slack is a trailblazer in modern workplace communication. As more companies look to Slack as their primary communication tool, a growing volume of business records and sensitive information accumulates on its platform. From…...more
On February 1, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced its first enforcement action under the Health Breach Notification Rule (“HBNR” or “Rule”) against GoodRx, a direct-to-consumer digital healthcare and prescription...more
Whether an organization is adding a new piece of technology to its platform or acquiring a new product to supplement its offerings, the customer (recipient) and vendor (transferor) will need to work together to ensure the...more
It’s been another interesting year in the world of legal technology, and we here at Hanzo have covered a variety of topics in 2022. Last week, we covered the first 10 of our top 20 ediscovery and compliance blogs. Today we...more
On October 27, 2022, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) announced a new regulatory framework (“Framework”) governing “Personal Financial Data Rights,” or, by another name, “open banking.” Conceptually, open...more
Law firms and the legal profession as a whole have the long-held reputation of being slow to innovate andstymied in tradition. In 2016 the American Bar Association launched its Center for Innovation to guide “innovations...more
Technology platforms are digital marketplaces where software developers, competing companies, and end users all come to build and buy software tools, store data, or integrate software from different providers to make it...more
Ediscovery and compliance are no longer reactive endeavors. Organizations must be proactive in order to mitigate legal and regulatory risk, and waiting for the perfect API for all of your data sources isn’t a sustainable...more
When it comes to ediscovery and compliance, APIs can give users the ability to use 3rd party solutions to preserve, collect, and even cull data housed in a SaaS application; however, functionality is still limited to what the...more
Connecting to an organization's various enterprise data sources is a primary goal for any ediscovery solution. After all, how can you identify, preserve, and analyze Electronically Stored Information (ESI) if you can’t...more
As we all try to keep up with the Metaverse and as the healthcare system wilts under a data deluge, the convergence of realities in a shared online space is not merely a chance for practitioners and patients to find each...more
Software as a Service (SaaS) applications have experienced phenomenal growth over the past few years, and this trend is continuing. In fact, one source states that at the end of 2021, 99% of organizations were using one or...more
A new Policy Statement from the US Federal Trade Commission places companies that offer consumer-facing health apps and connected health and wellness devices on notice that they may be covered by a Health Breach Notification...more
According to recent guidance from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), providers of health apps and connected devices that collect consumers’ health information must comply with the FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule, 16...more