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SmartEdge Presenting at IAPP KnowledgeNet on new CT data breach statute
The SmartEdgeLaw Group is happy to announce its participation in the upcoming Sept 29, 2015 IAPP KnowledgeNet to be held at the Hartford Convention Center in conjunction with the 2015 Information Governance Conference. Attendance at the KnowledgeNet is free of charge, but registration is required. IAPP members can received a 15% discount for the full InfoGovCon15 […]
Slew of State Data Breach Statutes in the Works
In the past two weeks we’ve reviewed proposed amendments or new data breach notification statutes from nearly a dozen states, including, Wyoming, Connecticut, Oregon, Hawaii, North Dakota, Montana, New York, and the data breach holdouts of New Mexico and Alabama. Stay tuned for our summaries. In short, though, AG notification is coming big time.
Thanks to those who attended our IAPP KnowledgeNet CT Meeting
A quick thanks to all those who attended our IAPP KnowledgeNet meeting, held yesterday in Hartford, and to my co-chairs Bruce Raymond and Catherine Itravina. There was a good turnout and many new faces around the table. After an informative presentation covering lessons learned from the Target data breach, by Pamela Gupta, President of Outsecure, Inc., […]
Two Northeast States Update Breach Notification Statutes – CT & VT
While well known in information security circles that today 46 states, D.C., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have enacted data breach notification statutes these statutory regimes aren’t fixed in granite. Last year, to name a few, California, Illinois and Texas amended their respective breach notification statutes (with Texas purporting to extend its notification law […]
Health Net Agrees to $250,000 Fine and “Corrective Action Plan” to Settle Loss of PHI
It didn’t take long for an Attorney General to latch onto Title XII of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (a/k/a the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act [the HITECH Act]) in order to convince a covered entity to enter a data loss-related settlement. Indeed, Heath Net of the North […]
