The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) recently announced two HIPAA enforcement actions ...

Introduction The evolving landscape of healthcare cybersecurity is undergoing a major transformation with the Department of ...

Erin Whaley, Brent Hoard and Emma Trivax of Troutman Pepper Locke LLP discuss legal risks and security threats for protected ...

County officials said a data breach affected 14,081 individuals, and notices are now going out. Officials said, "Hamilton County Government is a Covered Entity under HIPAA. Recently, its business ...

The Privacy Rules of HIPAA allow the individual to regain control over individually identifiable health information. The individual is guaranteed right of access to ...

A covered entity's failure to comply with the rules, intentionally or even unintentionally, could have ramifications of civil and even criminal penalties. Congress has prescribed civil penalties ...

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Here's what to change in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps and ad-blocking software. I also report on ...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said he's keeping an eye on 23andMe's bankruptcy proceeding and the company's planned sale because of privacy concerns related to genetic testing ...

The just-released iPhone software update has a bunch of headline features including Priority Notifications, new emoji, Sketch in Image Playgrounds and more, but iOS 18.4 also has some more under ...

Experts warn that sharing personal photos for AI image generation could compromise user privacy. AI-created Ghibli-style artwork is sweeping social media, with users posting breathtaking ...