This year, Indiana joined several other states to pass a comprehensive consumer privacy law, that becomes operative on January 1, 2026. Like other consumer privacy laws, Indiana’s law requires businesses to establish reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security practices to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of personal data, which implicates cybersecurity concerns.
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Recent HIPAA Settlement Offers Lessons on Data Disposal and the Meaning of PHI
A $300,640 settlement announced yesterday by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) provides important reminders about HIPAA Privacy Rule and data privacy practices generally: robust data disposal practices are critical and “protected health information” (PHI) is not limited to diagnosis or particularly sensitive information.
The OCR’s settlement involved a New England dermatology practice that reported…
Delaware Joins List of States Regulating Data Disposal
By Jason C. Gavejian on
Posted in Data Security, Workplace Privacy
On January 1, 2015, Delaware employers who dispose of records which contain the unencrypted personal identifying information of employees must take steps to ensure the privacy of such information. The bill, H.B. 294, was recently signed by Delaware’s Governor Jack Markell.
The new law defines personal identifying information as an employee’s first name…