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California Attorney General Announces Upcoming Best Practices Guidelines for...

On December 10, 2013, the Privacy Enforcement and Protection Unit of the California Office of the Attorney General (CA AG) held a meeting in San Francisco for interested stakeholders to discuss best...

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Congress Considers Cybersecurity Bills

Earlier last week, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) introduced H.R. 3696, a bill to amend the Homeland Security Act to make certain improvements regarding cybersecurity...

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House of Representatives Passes Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act...

On Friday, January 10, 2014, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3811, the “Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act of 2014” by a vote of 291 to 122. The bill was introduced on January 7,...

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Senator Leahy Reintroduces “Personal Data Privacy and Security Act”: Federal...

On January 8, 2014, Senator Leahy (D-VT) reintroduced the “Personal Data Privacy and Security Act” (S. 1897) in an effort to both enhance criminal penalties for computer hacking, and create a tough...

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U.S. Senate Banking and Judiciary Committees to Hold Hearings Examining Data...

The U.S. Senate Committees on Banking and the Judiciary will each host hearings during the week of February 3, 2014, to examine the impact on consumers from recently reported data security breaches and...

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Energy and Commerce Committee to Hold First U.S. House of Representatives...

Following the recent announcement of two U.S. Senate committee hearings on data security breaches, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced the first U.S. House of Representatives hearing to...

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OCR Issues Two New Reports to Congress on HIPAA Compliance and Enforcement...

Last week the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) presented certain findings regarding Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) compliance and enforcement to the National Committee...

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Location and Mobile Data in the Fight against COVID-19 – An Overview of U.S....

Governments are increasingly seeking to leverage consumer geolocation and other mobile device data to assist with fighting the spread of COVID-19, as cases continue to mount globally.  Location data...

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Senate Passes Significant Cyber Bill Requiring Cyber Incident Reporting

The Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022, a bill that narrowly failed to become law last year, was passed in the Senate on Tuesday, March 1 as a package of cybersecurity measures that would...

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