Making sense of information privacy

With more and more initiatives focused on information sharing, data exchange, aggregation, and analysis, there is also increased attention on establishing and protecting privacy, particularly of personal information. As noted in yesterday’s post, a federal panel…

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…

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…

Accounting of disclosures to become more comprehensive

One of the requirements under the HIPAA Privacy Rule is that covered entities maintain an “accounting of disclosures” of protected health information, in part so that an individual may request a record of who accessed their…

Privacy front and center for health IT

Since the 2004 call for widespread adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014, one of the primary barriers to implementation of health information technology solutions and to achieving interoperability of existing health data sources is…