Caleb Skeath and Brooke Kahn of Covington & Burling provide a useful recap of changes in 2018 that will impact us in 2019: …. Following up on our global year-end review of major privacy and cybersecurity developments, we’ve summarized the major developments and trends observed with regards to state data breach notification laws over the past…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
French watchdog fines Bouygues 250,000 euros for data security breach
Reuters reports that the CNIL has fined the Parisian telecom, but they don’t provide any real details as to what happened. But here’s a translation, via Google, of the CNIL’s press release: In March 2018, the CNIL received a report informing it of the existence of a security incident which led to making freely accessible the personal data of customers of the…
Four months after disclosing breach, Adams County, Wisconsin notifies HHS
Adams County, WI disclosed a breach in August that affected 258,000 and may have been an insider breach. But they only notified HHS/OCR of that breach a few weeks ago. I wonder why. There’s nothing on their site to explain the late notification.
Privacy and Cybersecurity: A Global Year-End Review
There have been a number of reviews of privacy and security news in 2018. Here’s one by Jadzia Pierce of Covington & Burling, the law firm that has represented my blogs for lo, these many years. I thank them for their ongoing support of my work, and wish them all a happy and healthy New Year in 2019….
Breaches have (advertising cost) consequences for hospitals
The following is the abstract of an observational study published on The American Journal of Managed Care. The TL;DR version seems to be that if entities were to spend more proactively on security, they might not have to pay about 64% more annually in advertising costs over the next two years following a breach. Understanding…
How To Protect Healthcare Records In A Zero Trust World
Louis Columbus writes: There’s been a staggering 298.4% growth in the reported number of patient records breached as a result of insider-wrongdoing this year alone according to Protenus. The total disclosed number of breached patient records has soared from 1.1M in Q1 2018 to 4.4M in Q3 2018 alone, 680K of which were breached by insiders. There…