Ben Brody reports: One morning back in February, Utah state Sen. Kirk Cullimore introduced an updated version of the bill that would soon become the state’s digital privacy law. His measure would be simpler for consumers and less burdensome for business than the California rules that have come to define state privacy in the U.S., the…
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Calls for HIPAA Lawsuit Follow Dismissal of Charges Against Lizelle Herrera
Note: Any informed reader will already know that HIPAA has no private cause of action. I wish the headline of this news story had not been misleading, but I suppose Newsweek’s editors could say, “Well people did call for it, so we’re reporting it even though it can’t happen.” Andrew Stanton reports: Calls mounted on…
Leaked: Draft Version of the European Health Data Space Regulation
Kristof Van Quathem, Sam Jungyun Choi, and Anna Oberschelp de Meneses of Covington and Burling write: On March 3, 2022, a leaked version of the proposal for a regulation setting up the European Health Data Space was published. The draft regulation will set up a common framework across EU Member States for the sharing and…
Inquiry after leak of “Official Sensitive” information involving Queen
BBC reports: An inquiry is under way after official correspondence about procedures for when the Queen dies was accidentally leaked by the Welsh government. The correspondence and a security pamphlet marked “official sensitive”, was emailed to a member of the public. Read more at BBC. Well, from reading the full article, PogoWasRight learned that something…