Emily Birnbaum reports: Dozens of advocacy organizations and children’s safety experts are calling on Meta Platforms Inc. to terminate its plans to allow minors into its new virtual reality world. Meta is planning to invite teenagers and young adults to join its metaverse app, Horizon Worlds, in the coming months. But the groups and experts that signed…
HHS Proposes Measures to Bolster Patient-Provider Confidentiality Around Reproductive Health Care
The Department’s Office for Civil Rights seeks to strengthen HIPAA privacy rule Today, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), through its Office for Civil Rights, issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to strengthen Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule protections by prohibiting the use or disclosure of protected…
2022 CCPA Litigation and Enforcement Report
By: Natasha G. Kohne, Michelle A. Reed, Molly E. Whitman, Lauren E. York, Rachel Claire Kurzweil, Shelly A. Kim, Tina M. Jeffcoat, Joseph Hold of Akin Gump Our annual CCPA Litigation and Enforcement Report looks back at the third year of civil litigation and administrative enforcement related to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and distilling salient points…
HHS Office for Civil Rights Announces the Expiration of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency HIPAA Notifications of Enforcement Discretion
Notifications of Enforcement Discretion expire at 11:59 pm on May 11, 2023 Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announces that the Notifications of Enforcement Discretion issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health…