IAPP member Adam Greene argues that pending federal regulation concerning whether regulators could share money collected from HIPAA enforcement with breach victims could impact privacy class-action suits, GovInfoSecurity reports. "Well, if [a person] is considered a harmed individual under HIPAA, should we consider them harmed for other purposes, too?" he said. "It will be interesting to see, when that regulation gets proposed and ultimately finalized, if that has an impact on class-action [breach lawsuits]." The pending regulation in question is mandated by the HITECH Act and under development by the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, the report adds.
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