DATA PROTECTION Archives – Page 80 of 85

H. Carol Saul, Limiting Law Firm Exposure to HITECH Act Liability: Do You Know Where Your Client’s Protected Health Information Is?, Georgia Bar Journal 24 (April 2010)

Date 04/30/2010.

Conclusion of the Article: “Although the overarching purpose of the HITECH Act [Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2010] is to provide a path for the federal government to achieve its goal of establishing widespread use of electronic health records by 2014, the HITECH Act’s reach extends more broadly than just […]

Center for Democracy and Technology, Protecting Privacy in Online Identity: A Review of the Letter and Spirit of the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s Application to Identity Providers

Date 03/31/2010.

CDT insists on “the need to develop some type of private or public legal regime that ensures identity providers properly safeguard consumer privacy in the emerging identity management industry”. CDT also highlighted that “If identity services are covered under the FCRA, relying parties would also have a number of important FIPs-related obligations including: Use Limitation […]

Kenneth A. Bamberger, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Privacy on the books and on the ground

Date 03/11/2010.

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 63, January 2011 UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 1568385 Abstract from the article: “U.S. privacy law is under attack. Scholars and advocates criticize it as weak, incomplete, and confusing, and argue that it fails to empower individuals to control the use of their personal information. These critiques present […]

Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, Opinion 1/2010 on the concepts of “controller” and “processor”

Date 02/16/2010.

From the Executive Summary: “The concept of data controller and its interaction with the concept of data processor play a crucial role in the application of Directive 95/46/EC, since they determine who shall be responsible for compliance with data protection rules, how data subjects can exercise their rights, which is the applicable national law and […]

European Commission Decision 2010/87/EU

Date 02/05/2010.

European Commission Decision 2010/87/EU on standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries under Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council Official Journal of the European Union L39/5, February 12, 2010 Whereas of the decision: “(2) Article 26(2) of Directive 95/46/EC provides that Member States may […]

Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act

Date 12/31/2009.

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was signed into law on February 17, 2009, to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology. Subtitle D of the HITECH Act addresses the privacy and security concerns associated […]

EU Directive 2009/136/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council

Date 11/25/2009.

of 25 November 2009 amending Directive 2002/22/EC on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks and services, Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 on cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection […]

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