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Health Privacy Laws

Washington’s My Health My Data Act Just Signed into Law: It May Have a Surprising Impact on Your Privacy Program

Introduction On April 27, 2023, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1155 (“My Health My Data Act” or “Act”). The Act is designed to protect not only Washington state residents’ health data, but also health data of non-residents of Washington that is processed in any manner in the state of…

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State Privacy Laws

Why Should You Be Afraid of Privacy Obligations? Because Now There will be 7, 8, 9… States with Comprehensive Data Privacy Laws!

The state of Indiana recently became the seventh U.S. state to enact a comprehensive state data privacy law. And on Friday April 21st, 2023, Montana and Tennessee’s legislatures passed comprehensive data privacy laws, which await the governors’ signatures, and are likely to become the eighth and ninth states to enact comprehensive data privacy laws. In…

Read insight — Why Should You Be Afraid of Privacy Obligations? Because Now There will be 7, 8, 9… States with Comprehensive Data Privacy Laws!
Health Privacy Laws

Cookies May be Bad for Your Health: OCR Warns Covered Entities and Business Associates of Its Broad View of HIPAA’s Applicability to Cookies, Pixels, and Other Tracking Technologies

On December 1, 2022 the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a nonbinding guidance Bulletin on the use of online tracking technologies by covered entities and business associates (collectively, “regulated entities”) under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). The position taken by OCR in…

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State Privacy Laws

Iowa Becomes Sixth State to Pass Comprehensive Privacy Law

On March 28, 2023, Iowa became the sixth state to pass a comprehensive data privacy law. Senate File 262, otherwise known as the Act Relating to Consumer Data Protection, obtained the governor’s signature after passing unanimously through the House and Senate. With another state comprehensive data privacy law added to the patchwork of U.S. privacy laws,…

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