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Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Blog Posts From September 2021
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Blog: FTC Warns Health Apps, Connected Device Companies to Comply with Health Breach Notification Rule
Date: September 22, 2021
Title: FTC Warns Health Apps, Connected Device Companies to Comply with Health Breach Notification Rule
Summary: On September 15, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a policy statement to offer guidance on the scope of its Health Breach Notification Rule (the Rule) in relation to health applications and connected devices. The Rule, issued in 2009, helps ensure entities not covered under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are held accountable when consumers’ sensitive health information that has been entrusted to them is compromised....
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Blog: OFAC September 2021 Advisory: Illusory Solutions to Soften the Enforcement Threat?
Date: September 22, 2021
Title: OFAC September 2021 Advisory: Illusory Solutions to Soften the Enforcement Threat?
Summary: On September 21, 2021, the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) released an updated advisory on potential sanctions risks for facilitating ransomware payments. The sanctions have been authorized by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the Trading with the Enemy Act with the purpose of disrupting funding for malicious cyber activities and limiting activities that may be adverse to U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives....