The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced a finalized rule under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act to strengthen privacy protections for reproductive health care. The rule bars disclosure of women's protected health information for obtai...

The IAPP released several full-length keynote presentations from the IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024. Columbia University Law Professor Anu Bradford discussed the differences between digital regulatory models in China, the EU and the U.S. and their implications for liberal democracy. Other presentat...

Israel's Privacy Protection Agency issued analysis of health care providers' data privacy compliance. The PPA report is based on a survey to health entities on organizational and corporate governance, database management and information security. Following discovery and notice of compliance shortcom...

South Korea's Personal Information Protection Committee and the Korea Internet and Security Agency launched a pilot program for a joint privacy-by-design certification. The program is intended to improve personal information collection devices present in everyday life. The first approved certificati...

In an op-ed for AdExchanger, Neolaw co-founder and Privacy Lawyer Andy Hepburn, CIPP/US, said the Global Privacy Control that allows consumers to opt out of targeted advertisements is too restrictive. Hepburn said a better approach for GPC settings "would enable advertisers to deliver relevant ads t...