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Massachusetts regulators propose amendments to information security regulations, delay enforcement until March 1, 2010

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 18 2009

On Monday, August 17, 2009, the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (OCABR) indicated that it will be modifying some provisions of the strict Massachusetts information security regulations first promulgated last year, 201 CMR 17

FTC to host public roundtables in December to address evolving consumer privacy issues

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 17 2009

The Federal Trade Commission will host a series of public "roundtable discussions" to explore the privacy challenges posed by "technology and business practices that collect and use consumer data," including social networking, cloud computing, online behavioral advertising, mobile marketing, and the collection and use of information by retailers, data brokers, third-party applications, and other diverse businesses

Massachusetts Attorney General secures $140,000 settlement of claims that patient information was left in a town dump

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 7 2013

The Massachusetts Attorney General announced today that the former owners of a medical billing practice and four pathology groups have agreed to

HHS announces first HIPAA breach settlement involving less than 500 patients

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 2 2013

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights ("HHS OCR") announced today that it was, for the first time, entering into a monetary

Congressional aide shares secret ethics list with the world

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 1 2009

Last week, it was learned that a secret report of the U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee was disclosed -- apparently inadvertently -- by a junior committee staff member

California hospital fined $187,500 for octuplet mom breach

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 17 2009

As we reported on April 2, a California hospital breached the privacy of the infamous "OctoMom," Nadya Suleman

Good news and bad news: an employer is hiring; it's the HHS Office of Civil Rights

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 17 2009

In an email to its listserv earlier today, the federal Department of Health and Human Services announced it "is expanding its health information privacy enforcement team"

Lawsuit challenges legality of HITECH Act

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 12 2009

A federal suit has been filed that challenges the legality of the federal HITECH Act

LifeLock to pay $12 million to settle charges that identity theft prevention and data security claims were false

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 10 2010

LifeLock, Inc, a self-proclaimed "industry leader in the rapidly growing field of identity theft protection" has agreed to pay $11 million to the Federal Trade Commission and $1 million to a group of 35 state attorneys general to settle charges that LifeLock falsely promoted its identity theft protection services

ABA sues FTC to stop application of Red Flag Rules to lawyers

  • Foley Hoag LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2009

In a move threatened but not expected this soon, the American Bar Association today sued the Federal Trade Commission, in an effort to stop the application of the Red Flags Rule to lawyers

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