How We Spent Our Summer Vacation or Summary of CCPA Amendments

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The long anticipated amendments to the CCPA were passed by the California Legislature in early September and now await Governor Newsom’s signature.  Some of the changes were “clean up” amendments to update cross references, standardize language, and generally address issues of drafting.  What follows is a summary of the most significant and substantive amendments:

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Failure to Respect Patient’s Right to Access Health Care Information Leads to HIPAA Settlement

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Bayfront Health – St. Petersburg (Bayfront) and the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) entered into a $85,000 no-fault settlement agreement and one year corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This settlement is the first case in HHS-OCR’s Right of Access Initiative (Initiative). The Initiative was open for public comment between December 2018 and February 2019 and received over 1,000 comments.

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Newly-Discovered Vulnerability Highlights the Security Concerns Surrounding Bluetooth Technology

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A recent report by researchers at the Helmholz Center for Information Security (CISPA), Singapore University of Technology and Design, and the University of Oxford has revealed that Bluetooth technology is vulnerable to a new type of hacking which allows for an attacker to carry out data theft on a Bluetooth-enabled device without the user’s knowledge or permission so long as the cyber-criminal is within Bluetooth range of the targeted device.

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