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Internet Privacy Bills Unlikely to Move in 2012, But Chances Better for Cybersecurity Legislation

Online privacy is expected to remain a hot topic in 2012, but it is unlikely that Congress will enact any major reforms in such a complex and unsettled area during an election year, observers tell Bloomberg BNA…

BNA INSIGHTS: Assessing The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act’s Impact on Employers After Two Years: Review of Litigation, EEOC Activity, Liability Risks, and Compliance Tips

Nov. 21, 2011 marked the two-year anniversary of the effective date of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which imposes limitations and special requirements on an employer’s acquisition and use of the genetic information of its employees…

BNA INSIGHTS: The Top Health Care Privacy Issues to Watch in 2012

There’s a lot going on in the health care world today. Perhaps because of ongoing health care reform developments and the long-standing delay in issuing final amendment to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act rules, the topic of health care privacy has been relatively quiet in 2011…

Office of Management and Budget Issues New Cloud Data Security Policy To Support Service Provider Approval System

The Office of Management and Budget issued a policy memorandum on cloud computing vendor data security authorization to support an acquisition program designed to allow federal agencies to more quickly transition to cloud computing services…

BNA INTERVIEW: Damon Greer, Former Director, U.S.-EU and U.S.-Switzerland Safe Harbor Programs

Damon C. Greer, director of the U.S.-EU & Swiss Safe Harbor Frameworks for the U.S. Department of Commerce from 2006 until the fall of 2011, sat down recently with the editors of BNA’s PSLR to discuss his tenure at the helm of the Safe Harbor programs…

Facebook Agrees to Settle FTC Claims; Express Consent Needed to Share User Data

Facebook Inc. will have to give users “clear and prominent notice” and obtain “affirmative express consent” before sharing customers’ information beyond their existing privacy settings, under a proposed administrative consent order with the FTC made public Nov. 29…

In Significant Move to Global Interoperability, APEC Leaders Approve Cross-Border Data Transfer Rules

The recent approval of new cross-border data transfer privacy rules by Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministers is a significant step toward a global system for transferring personal information despite a dizzying array of disparate data privacy regimes…

BNA INSIGHTS: Electronic Health Records Data and Secondary Use Research

An electronic health record (EHR) captures health data for treatment at the point of care but can also serve an important role for quality reporting, surveillance, and research…

Privacy, Policing, Technology Issues Intersect In GPS Tracking Arguments to Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument Nov. 8 in a criminal case that some privacy advocates are casting as one of the most important to come before the justices in decades…

Cyber Theft of U.S. Firms’ Trade Secrets Poses Growing Threat, Report Says

The cyber theft of U.S. companies’ trade secrets by foreign actors has become a “significant and growing” threat to the nation’s prosperity and security, the Obama administration said in an intelligence report released Nov. 3…

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