28 Mar, 2024 Utah Bill Would Add AI Regulations to its Consumer Protection Law By Mitzi Hill The Utah legislature has passed a bill that would hold companies liable for consumer protection/fair trade violations for misleading use...
27 Mar, 2024 Enhancing Healthcare Cybersecurity: President Biden's Budget Proposal By Mike Ruggio President Biden's 2025 budget proposal demonstrates the administration’s commitment to bolstering cybersecurity in the healthcare sector....
27 Mar, 2024 California Privacy Law: A Game Changer By Mitzi Hill The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is the most robust US state privacy law, giving residents control over a broad range of...
26 Mar, 2024 Feds to Investigate Hack of Healthcare Payment/Claims Processing Platform By Mitzi Hill In mid-March, the regulator responsible for privacy in healthcare announced that it will investigate a ransomware incident that took down...
21 Mar, 2024 Court Sides with California Regulator, Makes Privacy Regs Effective Immediately By Mitzi Hill A California appellate court in February handed a major strategic victory to the California privacy regulator (CPPA), which was created...
21 Mar, 2024 California Proposes Rule to Require Browsers to Provide Privacy Opt-out Controls By Mitzi Hill In the past couple of years, many states have passed comprehensive consumer privacy laws giving their citizens certain rights over their...
19 Mar, 2024 EU Passes World's First Comprehensive AI Law By Mitzi Hill In mid-March, the members of the EU voted to approve a bloc-wide AI law that will take effect over the next six months to three years....
14 Mar, 2024 Data Broker in Bankruptcy is Prohibited from Selling "Sensitive" Location Data Unless Buyer Promises to Treat Data Carefully By Mitzi Hill Data broker Near, an India-based company, has gone into bankruptcy seven months after a splashy IPO. Touting that it held data about 1.6...
12 Mar, 2024 Hack of Health Care Claims Processing System Causes Serious Issues Across Sector By Mitzi Hill A payment and claims clearinghouse platform owned by United Healthcare was hacked in February. The fallout affected patients directly, by...
07 Mar, 2024 New Cybersecurity Framework from NIST By Mitzi Hill The public agency that sets standards in the tech arena (NIST) has released a new version of its cybersecurity framework to the public....
05 Mar, 2024 US to Prohibit Sale of Personal Data to China and Other Countries of Concern By Mitzi Hill Via executive order in late February, the administration has kicked off a process to prohibit data brokers and others from selling...
28 Feb, 2024 America’s Growing Addiction to Data Centers! By Jeffrey Nix We in America are constantly swiping our credit cards to make purchases. In 2022, credit card transactions in the US alone totaled 54.8...