Technology industry association leaders who testified Thursday before a House subcommittee hearing on whether legislation is needed for data breach reporting called for Congress to pre-empt state laws on data breaches. But at least one witness opposed such preemption.
“There is a growing and exceptionally strong case to be made for the creation of a national data breach notification framework that supersedes state data breach laws,” said Dan Liutikas, chief legal officer of Washington- based Computing Technology Industry Association, a trade group for the computer hardware manufacturers, software developers and other information technology specialists.
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has asked a number of popular online healthcare websites and healthcare services providers to be more transparent about their privacy policies and how they use their customers' personal information.
Madigan said she sent letters to executives at WebMD.com, weightwatchers.com, drugs.com, menshealth.com, mayoclinic.com, about.com, health.com and mercola.com, asking them to disclose how much users' health information they capture, how they store it and whether they share it with outside companies.
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“Looking for connections and ways to make life easier” were the goals at UMass Memorial Medical Center when staff at a hospital in Worcester, Mass., began beefing up its social media presence.
That's what the hospital's social media manager, Rob Brogna, told the authors of a white paper released by ICF International that looks at how Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites are utilized in healthcare.
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Healthcare organizations seeking to maximize the number of patient records they can expose through a given security breach should consider contracting for professional help.
I'm only being partially facetious.
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