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California Spotlights Mobile Applications and Priv...

Duane Morris Health Law mhealth applications payors hhs advertising unfair false investors trade privacy providers health hipaa mobile apps | Health Law | Friday May 04, 2012 | By Lisa W. Clark

The relationship between privacy and mobile applications is coming into focus.   On February 27, 2012, the California Attorney General entered into a Joint Statement of Principles with the six largest mobile application companies – Apple, Google, H-P,...

California Spotlights Mobile Applications and Priv...

Duane Morris TechLaw applications hipaa unfair payors investors hhs mhealth mobile false health privacy providers apps advertising trade | Information, Technologies and Telecom | Friday May 04, 2012 | By Lisa W. Clark

The relationship between privacy and mobile applications is coming into focus.   On February 27, 2012, the California Attorney General entered into a Joint Statement of Principles with the six largest mobile application companies – Apple, Google, H-P,...

Mims' The Word

Duane Morris TechLaw manishin fcc tcpa privacy | Information, Technologies and Telecom | Tuesday April 03, 2012 | By Glenn B. Manishin

Almost everyone realizes there is a federally managed "Do Not Call List" governing telephone marketers (or "telemarketers"). Less well known is that a 1991 law, the Telelephone Consumer Protection Act, 47 U.S.C. § 227 , prohibits...

FTC Released its Final Report Today on Best Practi...

Duane Morris TechLaw privacy internet security jeskie | Information, Technologies and Telecom | Monday March 26, 2012 | By Sandra A. Jeskie

Today, the Federal Trade Commission released its final report titled "Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change: Recommendations For Businesses and Policymakers."  http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/03/privacyframework.shtm The...

Why You Should Buy PHI and PII Data Breach and Sec...

Duane Morris TechLaw insurance mhealth privacy gramm-leach-bliley ftc hhs mobile_health pii data_breach coppa ansi phi data security hipaa | Information, Technologies and Telecom | Thursday March 22, 2012 | By Lisa W. Clark

Click here to read latest blog on Why You Should Buy PHI and PII Data Breach and Security Incident Insurance.

Warning: If You Handle Protected Health Informatio...

Duane Morris Health Law hipaa mobile_health pii ftc coppa data_breach mhealth clark data security hhs privacy gramm-leach-bliley insurance phi ansi | Health Law | Thursday March 22, 2012 | By Lisa W. Clark

We live in the data age where every day a new technology is announced in business- and consumer-oriented ecommerce and mobile health (mhealth).  In response, in recent years, federal and state legislators have enacted strict data privacy and security...

FBI's Social Media Monitoring Plan Must Balance Pr...

Duane Morris TechLaw fbi security monitoring facebook privacy twitter media social | Information, Technologies and Telecom | Wednesday February 01, 2012 | By Eric J. Sinrod

A few weeks ago this blog pointed out that the Department of Homeland Security's command center regularly monitors social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, popular sites like Hulu, controversial sites including WikiLeaks, and news and...

The Ever Expanding Data Breach Notification Laws…

Duane Morris TechLaw data_breach jeskie security_breach privacy security | Information, Technologies and Telecom | Thursday October 06, 2011 | By Sandra A. Jeskie

Just when you thought the state breach notification laws could not get more cumbersome, states continue to amend their breach notification laws in an effort to expand the content and reach of the notice.   Texas Amendment Requires Notification to...

Protecting Personal Information In Borders Bankrup...

Duane Morris TechLaw borders data ftc information personal sinrod privacy | Information, Technologies and Telecom | Friday September 30, 2011 | By Eric J. Sinrod

Borders has long collected personal information from customers and promised that such information would not be disclosed without consent. In light of that and Borders' current bankruptcy proceedings, the FTC has sent a letter to the consumer privacy ombudsman...

State Law News (August 2011)

Duane Morris TechLaw burton data_destruction privacy amendment data_breach 4th | Information, Technologies and Telecom | Wednesday August 31, 2011 | By Joseph M. Burton

As we head toward the Labor Day Weekend, it is a good time to point out a couple of noteworthy state level legislative developments in the Information Security and Privacy space. California On August 22nd the California State Assembly...

Anonymous Educates Us About Security-- Again

Duane Morris TechLaw data_breach security privacy burton | Information, Technologies and Telecom | Wednesday August 17, 2011 | By Joseph M. Burton

Another data breach carried out by the “hactivist” group known as “Anonymous” provides an opportunity for businesses to become reacquainted with several important data security concepts. First let’s briefly review the  background of the incident. ...

Court To Decide Important Privacy Rights Case

Duane Morris TechLaw privacy surveillance burton | Information, Technologies and Telecom | Thursday July 21, 2011 | By Joseph M. Burton

In the flurry of activity immediately preceding the close of the United States Supreme Court's term in June, the court accepted Cert on what could be a pivotal 4th Amendment privacy case: United States v. Jones .   Jones presents the court with the...

Geotagging and Other Electronic Tracking – Worth t...

Duane Morris TechLaw jeskie privacy technology | Information, Technologies and Telecom | Monday July 18, 2011 | By Sandra A. Jeskie

Congress is currently considering a bill to prevent the abuse of location data collected by electronic devices.   In the mean time, we all have to question how much privacy are we willing to give up to get the types of services and apps we have come to...


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