And so it begins.
Month: February 2015
Bill Passed in Maryland Aims to Ensure Medical Privacy
WHAG reports: Even confidential medical records may not be completely confidential. Currently, insurance policy holders have access to patient care information via an insurance bill that is mailed home, which can put many people who are in abusive situations at risk. […] But as of February 3, the Maryland General Assembly updated Bill 790, making…
CA: Millions of DNA samples stored in warehouse worry privacy advocates
Patrick McGreevy reports: Privacy advocates are calling for more safeguards related to a state collection of DNA samples from 16 million Californians in a nondescript government warehouse in the Bay Area. The biobank holds blood taken with the prick of a heel from almost every baby born in California for the last three decades. It…
OCR Updates Breach Report Web Portal — Changes Could Impact Annual Breach Reports
BakerHostetler’s Data Privacy Monitor has a write-up on the changes in HHS/OCR’s data breach tool and online submission of breaches. The team is working on both sites, and I’ve reported a bug to them with a request for certain features, but as Data Privacy Monitor notes, the breach submission form now requires more specific information/break…
Fifth Circuit holds liability coverage for claimed violations of “person’s right of privacy” does not extend to lawsuit brought by business
Jon T. Neumann and Benjamin B. Watson of Steptoe & Johnson LLP write: In Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company v. Gum Tree Property Management, L.L.C., ___ F. App’x ___, 2015 WL 170244 (5th Cir. Jan. 14, 2015), the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, applying Mississippi law, affirmed the district court’s summary judgment order holding that a…
AU: TPG’s cloud arm wins small victory in stolen data lawsuit
Allie Coyne reports: The cloud services arm of TPG Telecom has won a small victory in an ongoing legal battle with rival Core Desktop over the latter’s alleged use of confidential business data to steal customers. Trusted Cloud this week successfully defeated an application by Core Desktop that claimed evidence provided by the TPG subsidiary…