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New era for privacy compliance: overview of the HIPAA "final rule"

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 6 2013

On January 25, 2013, the Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published in the Federal Register a

Lessons from in re HTC America Inc.: FTC's broadening approach to consumer data security leaves unwary manufacturer or developer with more than it bargained for

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 5 2013

The Federal Trade Commission's ("FTC") recent enforcement action In the Matter of HTC America Inc ("HTC"), FTC File No. 1223049, illustrates the

California Attorney General announces agreement on privacy policies for mobile applications

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 27 2012

On Wednesday, February 23, 2012, California's Attorney General announced an agreement with the six largest mobile device companies that will require privacy policies for mobile applications

U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission close antitrust investigations into high-profile patent acquisitions

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • February 24 2012

This past week the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it was closing its investigations of three high-profile acquisitions of substantial patent portfolios, including patents essential to implementing standards in the wireless communications and computer industries

GSA issues new rule heightening contractor requirements regarding information technology security

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 26 2012

In an effort to strengthen federal IT security, the U.S. General Services Administration has issued a final rule heightening IT security standards

China conditionally approves seagate acquisition of Samsung hard drive business

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • China, USA
  • -
  • January 11 2012

China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) has approved Seagate's acquisition of the hard drive disk division of Samsung Electronics ("Samsung HDD") under China's Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML"), but imposed conditions to ensure that Samsung, although controlled by Seagate, remains an independent competitor

Laws that prohibit the sale of certain medical information held to be an unconstitutional restraint against free speech

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 6 2011

In Sorrell v. IMS Health Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court held that Vermont's "Prescription Confidentiality Law" imposes content-based and speaker-based burdens on expression and, as such, is subject to heightened judicial scrutiny

EPA issues confidentiality rule for certain greenhouse gas data from companies

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 13 2011

On May 26, 2011, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule setting forth confidentiality determinations for certain types of data required under EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, codified at 40 C.F.R. Part 98

Potentially disruptive California sales tax decision

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 17 2011

On April 27, 2011, the California Court of Appeal's decision in Nortel Networks Inc. v. State Board of Equalization became final

General aviation flight information: private no more

  • Jones Day
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 13 2011

On March 4, 2011, the Federal Aviation Administration published its proposal to modify the standard FAASubscriber Memorandum of Agreement ("MOA") for Industry Access to Aircraft Situation Display ("ASD") and to National Airspace System Status Information data