Archive for the ‘Laws & Regulations’ Category

HIPAA Requirements Changes & Business Associates Impacts From HITECH Act

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Last week I engaged in a very interesting tweetversation with David Mortman about when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) needs to get their guidance documents and rules published for the various HITECH Act requirements…

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HIPAA Requirements Changes & Business Associates Impacts From HITECH Act

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Last week I engaged in a very interesting tweetversation with David Mortman about when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) needs to get their guidance documents and rules published for the various HITECH Act requirements…

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HIPAA Sanctions and Convictions Will Increase with HITECH Act & New Administration

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Upon reading and researching HIPAA and the impact of the HITECH Act upon it, basically broadening its applicability as well as adding new requirements for privacy breach notifications, I recently was compelled to write an article about what I foresee as likelihood that, after a very frustratingly slow start (by several years!) of HIPAA enforcement, increasingly more HIPAA sanctions will be made in the coming months and years.
SearchCompliance printed my article in three parts in their Compliance Tips section…

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There Are 47 US State & Territory Breach Notice Laws: 1-Page Listing

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Over the weekend I did some research to make sure I am up to date with all the current U.S. state and U.S. territories breach notice laws…

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Court Decision on FACTA Credit Card Transaction Receipt Violations

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

I was doing a bit of research around the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), and ran across an interesting recent court decision…

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Court Decision on FACTA Credit Card Transaction Receipt Violations

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

I was doing a bit of research around the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), and ran across an interesting recent court decision…

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Most Laws Are Flawed, But It Is Up To Us To Make Them Better & Make Them Work

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Rafal Los makes some very good points in his post “Analysis of the Stimulus Bill and Healthcare Privacy” from a few days ago. I started writing all my thoughts as a comment to him, but then decided it would work well as a blog post…

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31 Info Sec & Privacy Tweets From Past 4 Days

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I’ve been running across many interesting and useful news reports and pieces of information over the past few days, and putting them out on my Twitter peeps/tweeps/tweets/etc. For posterity and my own future reference, here’s a listing of the ones from the past few days I want to be able to look back upon without paging through multiple posts on my PrivacyProf account…

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31 Info Sec & Privacy Tweets From Past 4 Days

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I’ve been running across many interesting and useful news reports and pieces of information over the past few days, and putting them out on my Twitter peeps/tweeps/tweets/etc. For posterity and my own future reference, here’s a listing of the ones from the past few days I want to be able to look back upon without paging through multiple posts on my PrivacyProf account…

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31 Info Sec & Privacy Tweets From Past 4 Days

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

I’ve been running across many interesting and useful news reports and pieces of information over the past few days, and putting them out on my Twitter peeps/tweeps/tweets/etc. For posterity and my own future reference, here’s a listing of the ones from the past few days I want to be able to look back upon without paging through multiple posts on my PrivacyProf account…

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