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Healthcare Privacy Concerns: Balancing Patient Care and Compliance

Last week during the regional Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) conference in Nashville, I was lucky enough to host a gathering of executives from privacy and compliance for a private executive dinner with Adam Greene, an influential thought leader in privacy and partner with Davis Wright Tremaine. Adam moderated a robust discussion that explored […]

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The Pitfalls of Over-reporting Under the GDPR

[…] over 89,000 data breaches had been logged by EEA Supervisory Authorities. While the EDPB report casts a meteoric rise in reported breaches as positive evidence of increased privacy awareness, the plain truth is that many organizations are also over-reporting privacy-related incidents/breaches rather than face the risks of under-reporting. Maybe these organizations are thinking it’s […]

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On Our Radar: November 15, 2019

[…] what risk the data may pose to individuals should it be disclosed in some way … basically, what do we qualify as data we must protect as privacy professionals? In the last few years, this topic has gotten more complicated. When the GDPR went into effect, the definition of personal data became considerably more […]

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On Our Radar: November 8, 2019

Around the office, we talk a lot about how cyber attacks affect companies across many industries. We also often end up discussing the privacy industry itself. In a nutshell: it’s growing. And not just for the known players in the space. The industry is also seeing the introduction and proliferation of start ups and […]

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5 Hot Topics from the PrivSec Conference in New York

Traditionally, privacy and security have been poles apart. We’ve seen an increased effort in the industry to align these two functions, especially as heavyweight regulations like GDPR and CCPA become effective. This week’s 2019 PrivSec Conference at Columbia University in New York seeks to further unite privacy and security with two days of inspiration […]

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On Our Radar: November 1, 2019

How is it already November? Halloween is behind us, and thank goodness for that! Privacy professionals have more than enough to scare and trick us in our professional lives already–did you read my colleague Dorothy’s recent post about the rise in heart attacks following a ransomware data breach?  So let’s focus instead on the […]

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On Our Radar: October 24, 2019

[…] gone by, and with it another news cycle filled with examples of recent data breaches, hacking attacks, and regulatory enforcements. Does it feel like our work as privacy professionals is enjoying a little too much of the limelight these days? You aren’t alone. Data breaches – and the required notification to affected individuals – […]

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Built to Win: 5 Steps of a Proactive Incident Response Plan that Works

Privacy and security incidents involving sensitive personal data are as individual as fingerprints. An incident involving misplaced paper records is vastly different from a large-scale cyber-attack affecting millions of people. Yet the organization with the paper incident and the organization with the cyber-attack are both subject to a complex web of global data breach notification […]

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Changing Data Breach Laws: The New York SHIELD Act

[…] to HHS under HIPAA.  Notification Contents Specified: Individual notification contents are newly specified.  Read the full text of the regulation here.    What does this mean for privacy professionals?  Under the new provision, a failure to report a breach under HIPAA could also lead to a failure to report to the New York Attorney […]

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On Our Radar: October 11, 2019

It probably isn’t often that the world of privacy professionals is likened to a soap opera. However, if you really think about it, is the privacy world really all that far off from this genre of daytime television? The melodrama. The suspense. The evil twins! Ok, forget that last one. But there has been […]

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On Our Radar: October 4, 2019

[…] talk a lot about the different data breach notification laws proposed and enacted at a global level, and how that can contribute to a patchwork of complex privacy regulations that can leave privacy professionals scratching their heads. One of the trending regulatory changes we’re seeing in US states that will impact the  insurance industry […]

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The CISO’s Guide to Mitigating Enterprise Risk with Privacy by Design

[…] One of the most significant impacts on today’s CISOs, however, has nothing to do with mobile devices, malware, or the Internet of Things (IoT). Instead, expansive new privacy laws such as the European Union’s GDPR, California’s CCPA, and Canada’s PIPEDA often shape how a CISO sets priorities. Failure to comply with these laws poses […]

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