The Federal Trade Commission seems to be getting serious about unauthorized disclosures of data collected by health apps. In a Policy Statement issued on September 15, 2021, the FTC says
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FTC Offers Tips for Data Protection in Products Related to Fighting COVID-19
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From Fox Rothschild’s Privacy Compliance & Data Security blog
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has offered tips for data protection during the COVID-19 crisis.
- Consider privacy and security as you’re
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Will the New Administration Trump Efforts to Forecast 2017 Healthcare Trends?
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As she has done in January for several years, our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch quoted my partner Elizabeth Litten and me in Medical Practice Compliance Alert in her article…
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Apple, the FBI, and iPhone Encryption: A Battle of Biblical Proportions with Implications for HIPAA
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Whether it was an apple or a quince, pomegranate, or some other more botanically-likely fruit growing in the Garden of Eden, God’s command in Genesis was clear: do not eat…
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Six Tips for Providers to Reduce the Risk of Obtaining Unreliable HIPAA Compliance and Protection Software
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Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I had a recent conversation with our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch who quoted us in her Medical Practice Compliance Alert article, “Beware False Promises…
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Election Year Predictions: Expansion of Federal Healthcare Privacy Regulation
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Our partner Elizabeth Litten and I were quoted by our good friend Marla Durben Hirsch in her article in Medical Practice Compliance Alert entitled “6 Compliance Trends Likely to Affect…
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Patient Data Must Be Encrypted, Not “Camouflaged”, as Per FTC Settlement
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Health care vendors beware: if you tell customers that your product provides industry-standard encryption of protected health information in compliance with HIPAA, you’d better be sure it doesn’t simply “camouflage”…
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Chief Administrative Law Judge Refuses to Swallow FTC’s Section 5 Interpretation in LabMD Ruling
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Already many blogs and articles have been written on Chief Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell’s November 13, 2015 92-page decision exonerating LabMD from the FTC’s charges that it failed…
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FTC on Privacy: Beware of Offering Choices to Consumers beyond the Legal Minimum Requirements
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A recent post on this blog by our partner Elizabeth Litten was quoted in the Dissenting Statement (the “Dissent”) of FTC Commissioner Maureen K. Ohlhausen in the Matter of Nomi …
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Cyber-Sleuth or Cyber-Thief? LabMD Case Continues to Expose the Good, the Bad, and the Downright Ugly in Cyber-Security Developments
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LabMD, Inc. CEO Michael J. Daugherty continues to doggedly defend LabMD against an action brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against LabMD based on Section 5 of the FTC…
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