Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP write, in part: Companies face yet another major risk after a data breach—one which is increasing exponentially—data breach litigation brought by private plaintiffs, often in the form of class actions brought by sophisticated plaintiffs’ counsel who specialize in such cases. Private civil litigation is now a probability, not a…
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Biden Team Mulls Using Privacy Rule Amid State Abortion Bans
Ian Lopez reports: The Biden administration is working on a proposal to better protect the privacy of patients seeking reproductive health care, a move that follows concerns from providers struggling to offer services amid state abortion restrictions. The Proposed Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (RIN 0945-AA20) by the…
A researcher tried to buy mental health data. It was surprisingly easy.
Kevin Collier reports: A Duke University report found 11 data brokers agreed to sell information that identified people by issues, including depression, anxiety and bipolar disorder and often sorted them by demographic information. There is nothing new or particularly newsworthy in the findings. This has been going on forever. PogoWasRight’s early blog on a different…
Texas State Representative Introduces Comprehensive State Privacy Bill Draft
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On February 6, 2023, Texas State Representative Giovanni Capriglione submitted H.B. 1844, a comprehensive privacy bill modeled after the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”). The bill could make Texas the sixth U.S. state to enact major privacy legislation, following California, Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and Connecticut. Although the bill closely follows the…