Posts Tagged ‘privacy framework’

HHS’s New Privacy & Security Framework Based Upon The OECD Privacy Principles

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a framework, “Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework For Electronic Exchange of Individually Identifiable Health Information December 15, 2008” for protecting patient privacy and securing medical records, in particular online protected health information (PHI) records.

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APEC Privacy Framework: Viewpoints from the FTC, TRUSTe & Marty Abrams

Saturday, October 27th, 2007

One of the sessions I attended at the IAPP Privacy Academy this past week was “APEC Update – Self Regulatory Approaches to Cross Border Transfers of Personal Data.” The presenters were: Pamela Jones Harbour, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Marty Abrams, Executive Director, Center for Information Policy Leadership, and Fran Maier, Executive Director and President, TRUSTe.

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