Not everyone agrees what is (and isn’t) personal information

Deliberations among European Union member countries made privacy headlines in early 2008 when Peter Scharr, data protection commissioner for Germany and leader of a group of EU data privacy regulators, while speaking at a European Parliament…

NIST recommends updates to Privacy Act

Last week the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) published a report, “Toward A 21st Century Framework for Federal Government Privacy Policy”, recommending a variety of both broad and targeted actions intended to update the…

Personal data breach notification law may be in the works for Europe

A May 6 article in the New York Times (“E.U. To Consider More Stringent Reporting of Data Breaches“) includes quotes an opinions from a number of people suggesting that the European Union may be heading for…

New security provisions in draft U.S. ICE legislation

The draft U.S. Information and Communications Enhancement (U.S. ICE) legislation expected to be introduced by Senator Tom Carper (D – Del.) addresses and tries to remedy many of the shortcomings in the Federal Information Security Management…

Reactions to the proposed Internet SAFETY Act

There’s a great deal of hand-wringing and outrage expressed over new legislation proposed in both the House and the Senate intended to add all sorts of requirements to Internet and other electronic communication service providers in…

New Federal notification requirement for breaches of protected health information

One of the more widely anticipated provisions of the HITECH Act is a new provision requiring many health information exchange participants (specifically, covered entities and business associates under HIPAA) to provide notification to individuals in the…

Stronger provisions coming with the stimulus bill

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which the president is expected to sign into law on Tuesday, contains within it the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, as Title XIII….