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The World Privacy Forum filed comments regarding the US Federal Trade Commission’s 2023 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding Health Breach Notification. This marks the second set of comments...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2023/08/wpf-advises-ftc-regarding-health-data-breach-notification-rule/

The FTC announced its first enforcement action under its Health Breach Notification Rule. This rule applies to entities that are not covered under HIPAA. The announcement of the proposed order wa...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2023/02/ftc-takes-action-against-health-apps/

The FTC held an historic open FTC Commission meeting, during which the Chair and Commissioners conducted their business openly and also provided an opportunity for public comments. The World Priv...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2021/07/wpf-urges-ftc-chair-and-commissioners-to-update-ftc-health-breach-notification-rule/

The World Privacy Forum has submitted comments to the FTC regarding its proposed consent order In the Matter of Flo Health, Inc. requesting that the FTC conduct further analysis regarding the FTC...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2021/03/wpf-urges-us-federal-trade-commission-to-re-examine-data-breach-notification-requirements-for-health-data-in-flo-health-proposal/

All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have enacted data breach notification laws. The first data breach law was passed in 2002 in California, and in 20...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2020/01/states-that-publish-data-breach-lists/

WPF Executive Director Pam Dixon will testify before the full committee of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) regarding emerging privacy concerns in the healthcare envi...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2019/11/wpf-to-testify-on-emerging-issues-in-health-privacy-before-the-national-committee-on-vital-and-health-statistics-beyond-digitization-artificial-intelligence-apis-and-health-privacy/

The World Privacy Forum advised the SEC in comments today regarding the SEC proposal to modernize the description of business, legal proceedings, and risk factor disclosures pursuant to Regulatio...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2019/10/wpf-advises-sec-regarding-data-risk-factors-and-disclosures/

We have updated our medical data breach map to bring it current to January 2019. This interactive map displays the location of each medical data breach recorded at the US Department of Health and...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2019/01/new-updates-to-interactive-medical-data-breach-map/

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has produced a set of cybersecurity resources for healthcare provider organizations from small to large. So far, HHS has published four docume...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2019/01/health-industry-cybersecurity-practices-new-consensus-practices-and-tools-from-hhs/

The Marriott data breach announced on Nov. 30, 2018 is a significant breach, reaching across multiple countries and affecting an estimated 500 million people. The breach includes an array of data...

https://www.worldprivacyforum.org/2018/11/marriott-data-breach-key-tips/