Please be advised that the new Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) security standards is a very long PDF document (289 pages). It is the text of the “final Rule adopting HIPAA standards for the security of electronic protected health information to be implemented by health plans, health care clearinghouses, and certain health care providers.” The text will also be available in today’s Federal Register. The rule takes effect April 21, but compliance by most institutions is not required until 2005. See this article, Patient info practices change, for background on how the new rules will impact hospitals.
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Daily Archives: February 20, 2003
Merits of PA Net Blocking Law Challenged
The Center for Democracy and Technology issued a press release and a report (PDF) contending that a recent Pennsylvania law (18 Pennsylvania Statutes Sec. 7330) requiring ISPs to remove or disable access to Internet pornography upon notification by the state Attorney General violates constitutional principles of due process. The law also results in the blocking… Continue Reading
More on Google and Privacy Issues
From Google Village, this posting, Google, Privacy, Blogs and Alternatives to Search, continues the thread of discussion on growing concerns about powerhouse search engine Google’s approach to privacy issues that some liken to long standing complaints about Microsoft’s products and services. Continue Reading
California Bill on Financial Privacy Moves Forward
SB 1, the California Financial Information Privacy Act, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 18. The bill would require that financial institutions allow customers to exercise the choice of “opting-in” or “opting-out” to determine whether their personal data is shared with affiliated groups, as well as sold to third parties. Continue Reading
Commentary on Patriot II
Professor Anita Ramasastry of the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle has published a commentary worth review, Patriot II: The Sequel Why It’s Even Scarier than the First Patriot Act. See my previous postings here and here on this controversial draft legislation that was leaked even before it was made available to members… Continue Reading
Study Reveals New Consequences of Net Filtering
Web Sites Sharing IP Addresses: Prevalence and Significance, a study by Benjamin Edelman of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, establishes that “more than 87% of active domain names are found to share their web servers with one or more additional domains, and more than two third of active domain names share their web… Continue Reading
