Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a final rule intended to implement a 2020 modification to the federal substance use disorder (SUD) privacy statute.
On November 28, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced a Notice.
Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco recently announced a Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative by the Department of Justice (DOJ) targeting companies that fail to meet government cybersecurity standards.
Introduction
Consistent with a growing national trend, Virginia joined
California in recently passing consumer privacy legislation with
broad national reach. Both the Virginia Consumer Data Protection
Act (Virginia CDPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)
take effect on Jan. 1, 2023, following closely behind the recently
passed and enacted California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which
went into effect in January 2020. Kramer Levin developed the
following checklist to help businesses better understand:
Whether these laws apply to your business
What consumer rights they create
How to respond to consumers exercising these rights
The best practices to streamline and ensure business
compliance
For companies that have already implemented the CCPA, the good