Montana recently revised its Genetic Information Privacy Act to address neural data. The law went into effect in 2023, and applies to both entities that offer genetic testing services as well as entities that use genetic data.Continue Reading Montana Amends Law to Cover Collection and Use of Neural Data
Starting April 3, Ohio hospitals will have to navigate new requirements under House Bill 173. This law mandates greater transparency in healthcare pricing. It also includes rules for selling or targeted advertising related to personal information hospitals collect from price estimator tools (discussed in more detail below). The law applies to hospitals in Ohio, which is any facility providing inpatient medical services for periods longer than twenty-four hours.Continue Reading New Ohio Transparency Pricing Rules for Hospitals Comes with Limits to Targeted Advertising
The New York Attorney General’s Office recently settled with Albany ENT & Allergy Services over claims that the healthcare provider failed to protect over 200,000 consumers’ private health information. The claims stem from two ransomware attacks in 2023. The AG argued that the company had violated New York’s data security law, resulting in the incident. As part of the settlement, Albany ENT agreed to pay $2.75 million in civil penalties and to implement additional security measures.Continue Reading New York AG Settles EnforcemENT Action with ENT
California’s governor has signed an amendment to CCPA, the state’s well-known privacy law. While California was the first to pass a “comprehensive” privacy law, it is the second -with this new amendment- to include “neural data” to the definition of sensitive personal information. It follows Colorado, which added this information to its law earlier this year. Unlike Colorado, the modification will not go into effect until January 1, 2025. (Colorado’s amendment, on the other hand, became effective at the beginning of August.)Continue Reading California Joins Colorado in the Brain Wave Action
The amendment to the Colorado Privacy Act, expanding the scope of sensitive data, goes into effect today (August 6). The law will now include as sensitive information biological data that is used for identification purposes. Biological data is data generated by the technological processing of, inter alia, an individual’s physiological and biochemical properties, or a consumer’s body or bodily functions.Continue Reading Colorado’s Privacy Law Gets in on the Brain Wave Action
Governor Newsom recently signed two amendments to the CCPA strengthening protections for certain data types. The changes go into effect January 1, 2024.Continue Reading CCPA Amendments Extend Protections to Reproductive Health and Citizenship Status