While the law demands employers maintain certain health and safety standards on company premises, the regulations governing people working from home are much less clear. It's about time the regulations were updated for the 21st century - or failing...
Healthcare professionals and privacy activists say the legislation would ride roughshod over existing data protection, and could even contravene human rights legislation. Are we saying that we should change one of the basic tenets of healthcare...
In the United States, medical and insurance companies are bracing for a key deadline involving the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which aims to protect the privacy of health records, among other things.
Legislation that's passed in the last two years - Sarbanes-Oxley, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and California's Security Breach Information Act - is forcing companies to meet minimum levels of security for their...
That law, called the California Security Breach Information Act, and the federal Graham-Leach-Bliley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are intended to prod the industry to adopt better data-handling practices.
The tougher stance answered many critics' calls for legislating responsible security measures for businesses, in much the same way that the Graham-Leech-Bliley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) set data...