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If you have been relying on last year’s court order staying the ability of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) to enforce regulations promulgated under the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) to also stay your own CPRA compliance program --- time to ramp back up. Read more ..read more

FTC Warns AI Companies to Honor Privacy and Confidentiality Commitments ..read more

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a concept paper on December 6, 2023 outlining its action plan to enhance cyber resiliency in the health care sector by proposing certain voluntary cybersecurity actions and standards that may ultimately become requirements. For health care organizations such as hospitals, “cyber resiliency” generally means how organizations anticipate, operate during, respond to, and recover from cyber attacks such as ransomware attacks, cloud exploitations, phishing or spear-phishing attacks, software and zero-day vulnerabilities, or distrib ..read more

Updates to CCPA Proposed Regulations: Cybersecurity Audits (Spoiler Alert … they will cost real money and take real effort ..read more

The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) announced Thursday that in furtherance of the work of the agency’s Privacy and Data Protection Task Force, the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau signed Memoranda of Understanding (“MOU”) with the Attorneys General of Connecticut, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania to share expertise and resources and to coordinate efforts conducting privacy, data protection and cyber-security-related investigations. Read more about this noteworthy legislative step. By Jonathan P. Garvin ..read more

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) recently offered covered entities and business associates (Regulated Entities) not-so-subtle reminders in its October 2023 Cybersecurity Newsletter that effective sanction policies can encourage HIPAA compliance.​​​​​​​ Regulated Entities are required by HIPAA to implement sanction policies in which they impose “appropriate sanctions” against their respective workforce members who fail to comply with the Privacy Rule or Security Rule, the Regulated Entity’s privacy policies and procedures, and/or the Regulated Entity’s security policies and procedures, as appl ..read more