The State of the Union address has a long history in the United States, going back to the Constitution and birth of the Republic, when President George Washington set the precedent by sharing his report on the country with both houses of Congress. That tradition did not last long, however, as less ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's "first-of-its-kind" enforcement action against U.S. health care company GoodRx has important takeaways for privacy programs that handle health-related data. It also signals an increase in the FTC's use of its unfairness authority in privacy cases, IAPP Managing Di...

In what the U.S. Federal Trade Commission calls a "first-of-its-kind" enforcement action, the FTC filed a proposed order against GoodRx, a U.S. health care company, for violating the Health Breach Notification Rule and the FTC Act. The proposed order prohibits GoodRx from disclosing user health data...

U.S. senators wrote a letter to several telehealth companies criticizing their reported failure “to protect sensitive health information,” Stat reports. U.S. Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., recently wrote to Monument, Workit ...

In this week’s Global News Roundup, the European Commission launched a new General Data Protection Regulation enforcement review plan. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights entered a settlement with a health care provider for a patient privacy rights violation. An...