The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enacted last summer, will drive class action lawsuits for information breaches as well as impose sweeping new compliance obligations on any company that does business in California and collects or uses personal information about California residents (including employees). With the January 1, 2020 compliance ..read more

The Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) today announced that it is lowering the maximum total penalties it may assess against covered entities and business associates for multiple violations of a single HIPAA provision in a single calendar year. Although OCR is likely to continue ..read more

The Privacy Oracle consolidates significant U.S. legislative and regulatory developments at the state and federal level into a single publication. In this month’s issue, we offer: An analysis of bills introduced in the 116th Congress that seek to regulate consumer privacy A review of amendments to the CCPA that have ..read more

With Hobbs Act Case Pending in Supreme Court, 4th Circuit’s Decision May Implicate Fate of Other FCC-Created Exceptions and Allowances Under TCPA’s Automated-Call Ban The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has held that an exemption Congress created in 2015 to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), allowing ..read more

The National Restaurant Association will host the Financial Officers, Tax Executives & Internal Auditors Executive Study Group Meeting, June 25-27, 2019 in Costa Mesa, California. Over the course of three days, leading restaurant industry tax, finance and audit professionals will share the very latest challenges, best practices and opportunities from ..read more

Despite support from the technology industry and almost unanimous support in the state Senate, the Washington Privacy Act (SB 5367) appears to dead after it failed to pass the Washington House before the April 17 deadline for the current legislative session. The bill—assumed by many to be a ..read more

Senators Warner, D-Va., and Fischer, R-Neb., introduced the “Deceptive Experiences to Online Users Reduction,” or DETOUR Act, on April 9, 2019. The bill covers “large online operators” (those with more than 100 million authenticated users), and addresses three main issues: Behavioral or psychological experiments on users; User interfaces (UIs) that ..read more

For the last 18 years, most financial services businesses could sum up their privacy practices with just four letters: G-L-B-A, also known as Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Public Law 106-102, and its implementing regulations (“GLBA”). With the compliance date for California’s sweeping new privacy law quickly approaching ..read more

Join the Health Care Compliance Association, April 7-10, in Boston for the single most comprehensive healthcare compliance conference. The program is designed for compliance professionals from a variety of healthcare backgrounds, including compliance officers, billing and coding professionals, auditors, nurses, risk managers, ethics officers, privacy officers, health information professionals. Healthcare ..read more