The Supreme Court in Vermont has ruled that a patient can sue a hospital and one of its employees for a privacy violation, despite Vermont law and HIPAA not having a private cause of action for privacy violations. The lawsuit alleges negligence over the disclosure of personal information that was obtained while the patient was […]
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Cybersecurity, Data Security, GDPR, Information Technology, IT, PII, Uncategorized
At the end of September, I presented at the annual InfoGovCon17 conference, in sunny Providence, RI. I introduced information privacy, a key part of unified governance that’s accelerated by the pending EU GDPR that goes live in less than 240 days. I find there’s still a lot of confusion (does it even apply to my […]
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