The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has updated its Health Breach Notification Rule that applies to non-HIPAA, consumer health data. Among the revisions, the FTC expanded or introduced key definitions ...

For years, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) has required financial institutions to maintain reasonable safeguards for consumer data, but has only had limited breach-reporting requirements. To the ...

The HITECH Act requires FTC, in consultation with HHS, to study potential privacy, security and breach notification requirements for vendors of personal health records (“PHRs”) and other entities that ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized a rule Friday that aims to tighten the reins on digital health apps sharing consumers' sensitive medical data with tech companies. The agency issued a ...

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The FTC is aiming to keep pace with evolving health data usage in updating the HBNR, which was first issued in 2009 and has rarely been used to penalize companies for breaches. However, apps and other ...