From EPIC.org: In comments to the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), EPIC opposed proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule reducing restrictions on disclosing patients’ Protected Health Information (PHI). HHS’s proposed rule would expand the entities that can receive PHI without patient consent, lower the standard for disclosing PHI in the process of care coordination, and…
Category: Laws
Congress has another chance at privacy legislation. It can’t afford to fail again.
The editorial board of the Washington Post writes: Congress out of excuses for its inability to pass a privacy law years ago. Now, some of its members are promising they’ll finally do their jobs — just give them another year and a half. The quest for federal rules to govern companies that deal in citizens’…
Senators Reintroduce Bill to Amend COPPA
Shelby Dolen of Husch Blackwell writes: Senators introduced the “Clean Slate for Kids Online Act of 2021” in the United States Senate last week. The bill seeks to amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). The bill provides individuals with the right to delete personal information the operator collected from the individual as a child. The…
A Dutch city gets hit with a €600,000 fine for WiFi tracking
Jenny List writes: It’s not often that events in our sphere of technology hackers have ramifications for an entire country or even a continent, but there’s a piece of news from the Netherlands (Dutch language, machine translation) that has the potential to do just that. Enschede is an unremarkable but pleasant city in the east of the country,…