hiQ v. LinkedIn – Who Controls Your Publicly Available Data?

The internet is vast and full of data that is publicly available to anyone with the time, or technology, to mine for insights. You can find everything from years of NYC taxi cab data and Uber information to more obscure datasets about every Jeopardy qu… Continue reading hiQ v. LinkedIn – Who Controls Your Publicly Available Data?

A Breakdown of the Second Largest HIPAA Fine to Date – $5.5 Million

For the first time, the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) penalized a covered entity for failure to implement audit procedures to review, modify, and/or terminate users’ right of access. In the scope of the investigation, it was discovered that more than 100,000 individuals had their electronic Protected Heath Information (“ePhi”) records impermissibly disclosed. On February 16, 2017, […]… Read More

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GDPR is Coming – Penalty Primer

It has been eight months since the Court of Justice for the European Union struck down the 15-year-old Safe Harbor arrangement between the EU and US. At the time, there was a good deal of consternation over the future of EU-US data exchange and just how businesses would continue to operate. Despite several fits and […]… Read More

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