The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will take effect on January 1, 2020 and regulates most entities that collect personal information of California residents. CCPA was patterned after the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which went online on May 28, 2018 and has been called “GDPR-Lite.” In May, Fox Rothschild partner Odia Kagan
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California Hospitals Fined for Employees’ Unauthorized Access of Patient Records
By William Maruca on
Posted in Privacy & Security
The more famous the patient, the greater the temptation to peek at his or her medical records. This is why California enacted health privacy legislation in 2008. Among the latest providers to be fined by the state is Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, reportedly as a result of two employees’ unauthorized access of Michael Jackson’s…