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OCR HIPAA Enforcement and the Future of Mega-Dollar CMPs and Settlements

OCR just announced its most recent HIPAA settlement, this time with an EMR vendor Medical Informatics Engineering, acting as a business associate.

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Proposed Overhaul of North Carolina Security Breach Notification Law Would Make It One of the Toughest in the Nation

Yesterday, North Carolina state Representatives Jason Saine (R), Brenden H. Jones (R), Robert T. Reives II (D), and Pricey Harrison (D) introduced…

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Wyrick Robbins Data Protection Team Grows to Meet Client Demand

Privacy concerns and data security breaches pervade the news. The deluge of social media scandals, massive data breaches, constant phishing schemes designed…

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2018 Actions Show North Carolina Attorney General Emerging as Leading Privacy Enforcer

Unlike attorneys general in Massachusetts, New Jersey, and California, North Carolina’s Attorney General has not historically been an active privacy and data…

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$1 Million Fine Signals SEC’s Focus on Red Flags Rule and Safeguards Rule Compliance

When one thinks of the top data-security cops on the beat, the SEC doesn’t typically come to mind. Overshadowed by the Federal…

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Big, Juicy, Egregious HIPAA Enforcement Cases #BJE—Notes from the OCR/NIST Annual Conference

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) put on their 11th annual HIPAA conference…

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Client Alert: HIPAA Risk Analysis

Low-Hanging Fruit for Regulators: Failure to Conduct Comprehensive Risk Analysis Frequently Featured in HIPAA Enforcement The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act…

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Client Alert: DC Circuit Partially Overturns 2015 FCC Order in Long-Awaited TCPA Ruling

By Lynn C. Percival Earlier today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a long-awaited opinion addressing a…

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Client Alert: 121 Days Until GDPR Enforcement – The European Commission Offers New Resources and Suggests Prompt Action

According to the ominous countdown ticker on the European Commission (EC) website, there are only 121 days until the…

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Client Alert: One-Stop Resource on Protecting Yourself after the Equifax Breach

Equifax’s recent announcement of a massive data breach affecting approximately 143 million consumers has many consumers wondering how…

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