Maryam Casbarro

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced a 45-day extension of the comment period for proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The deadline for submitting comments now has been pushed from...more March 1, 2021, is the due date for HIPAA-covered entities to notify the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (OCR) about "small" breaches of unsecured protected health information discovered...more LitLand is a monthly feature that reviews developments in litigation as they relate to privacy matters and highlight any past, current, and future cases about which you should know....more Giving consumers choices to control the collection, use, and disclosure of their personal information has been a key feature of privacy law and guidance for decades. However, in the United States, until the advent of the...more