By: Aaron Krowne On July 1, 2014, Delaware signed into law HB 295, which provides for the “safe destruction of records containing personal identifying information” (codified at Chapter 50C, Title 6, Subtitle II, of the Delaware Code). The law goes into effect January 1, 2015. Overview of Delaware’s Data Destruction Law In brief, the law requires…
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California Court Says: “No Peek, No Breach” For Health Information Privacy
By: Aaron Krowne In a major recent case testing California’s medical information privacy law, part of the California Medical Information Act, or CMIA (California Civil Code § 56 et seq.), the Third District Court of Appeals in Sutter Health v. Superior Court held on July 21, 2014 that confidential information covered by the law must be…
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Supreme Court Brings “Reasonable Expectation of Privacy” Into The Digital Age
By: Aaron Krowne In this post we briefly introduce a key aspect of the right to privacy – the reasonable expectation of privacy (“REP”) – and discuss the impact of the recent US Supreme Court decisions in Riley v. California and US v. Wurie on it, with implications for digital information privacy. A Game-Changer? The…
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Florida’s New Law is Strong “Sunshine” for Data Breaches
By: Aaron Krowne On June 20, 2014, the Florida legislature passed SB 1524, the Florida Information Protection Act of 2014 (“FIPA”). The law updates Florida’s existing data breach law, creating one of the strongest laws in the nation protecting consumer personal data through the use of strict transparency requirements. FIPA applies to any entity with…
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