SPECIAL REPORT: Cloud User Contracts Do Not Usually Cover Data Security Liability Risks, Attorneys Warn

Companies turning to third-party cloud computing services are typically presented with service contracts containing few, if any, terms to protect them against…

American Bar Association Panelists Peer into Cloud Computing, See Risks as Well as Benefits for Lawyers

Cloud computing may be a relatively new term in legal ethics circles, but it attracted plenty of attention at two programs presented during the…

Senate Commerce Committee Leaders Unveil Bill to Establish National Data Security Standards

Top Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Democrats Aug. 5 introduced legislation that would authorize the Federal…

BNA INSIGHTS: HHS Proposed Rule Fine-Tunes HITECH and HIPAA Requirements

On July 14, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) published a notice of proposed rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”) that would modify the HIPAA privacy…

Rite Aid to Pay HHS $1 Million to End HIPAA Privacy Probe; Also Settles FTC Act Violations

National drug store chain Rite Aid agreed to pay $1 million to the federal government to settle allegations it violated the Health Insurance…

House  Panel Eyes Two Legislative Privacy Approaches; FTC Doesn’t Endorse  Either

A data privacy legislative proposal by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.) and a just-introduced competing consumer data protection bill introduced by…

BNA INSIGHTS: Building an Online Identity Legal Framework: The Proposed National Strategy

With the White House release for public comment of its draft National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, the Administration has made it a priority to address…

HHS Proposes Extending HIPAA Enforcement, Privacy, Security Rules to Business Associates, Subcontractors

The Department of Health and Human Services July 8 announced proposed changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule, Security Rule, and…

Special Report: Commerce Department Urged by Commenters to Protect Web Innovation from Rigid Privacy Rules

A recent Commerce Department request for public comments on privacy and e-commerce issues drew an overwhelming response from the business community, with…

BNA INSIGHTS: Governance of Enterprise Security: Carnegie Mellon CyLab 2010 Report

Today, the fiduciary duty directors and officers have to protect the assets of their organizations extends to digital assets, and has been…

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