City Council passed the Health Data Protection Ordinance at its Monday night meeting, barring the City of Evanston from providing sensitive health data to federal or out-of-state governments unless ...

Last week, the Governor of Washington signed a package of legislation aimed at protecting the health care of women in response to the United States Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe vs. Wade. One of the ...

Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends. The United States has various federal and state laws that cover different aspects of data privacy, like health data, financial ...

If a credit card company quietly were to allow third parties to track, analyze and resell your purchases without clear consent, regulators would act, and quickly. Consumers would demand answers. And ...

At 26 years old, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the most mature and comprehensive health data protection law in the US. (It passed in 1996.) One of the earliest ...

U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) introduced new legislation today to protect consumers’ private health data. While recent reports have highlighted how home DNA ...

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on July 8 a 234-page notice of proposed rulemaking on health IT privacy and security that promises to strengthen existing ...

Washington’s My Health My Data Act implements strict—and separate—consent requirements for the collection and sharing of an individual’s health data, with few exceptions. As of March 31, 2024 the ...

Your health information might feel private and secure with your doctor, but the reality is far more complicated. Data brokers collect a wide range of sensitive health data, from diagnoses and ...

This year alone, there have been three large U.S. healthcare data breaches. They raise important questions about the protection of online health data and the regulations that govern it. The Health ...

With the growing popularity of smartwatches come the increased concerns over user health data safety and security. Governments worldwide have begun voicing warnings about potential risks associated ...

The use of wearable technology and medical apps surged in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, but research released by Mozilla indicates that current laws offer little protection for consumers ...