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A New York accounting firm’s $175,000 HIPAA settlement shows how any business handling protected health information becomes subject to healthcare privacy laws. Learn who HIPAA
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A New York accounting firm’s $175,000 HIPAA settlement shows how any business handling protected health information becomes subject to healthcare privacy laws. Learn who HIPAA

Understanding where transactional email ends and marketing begins can determine whether your messages comply with anti-spam regulations. Here in the U.S., the CAN-SPAM Act uses

Privacy regulations are expanding across the US and globally, making measuring how well your privacy program performs essential. With a clear approach to metrics, you

Here’s a fun game: compare your privacy statement to what your systems do. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Uncomfortable yet? You probably should be. I spend

A question came up today about whether placing unsubscribe links behind a login requirement complies with CAN-SPAM. This fairly common implementation choice deserves scrutiny from

Remember when I said that if a product is free, you’re probably the actual product?1 The Texas Attorney General just launched a lawsuit showing how

Last Friday, Aug. 30, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission filed a stipulated lawsuit against Verkada, Inc.1 The FTC makes several allegations in its complaint that range

Over the years, I’ve heard many excuses for not sending permission-based emails. One of the more creative excuses came from a sender in the EU

What Happened: On July 17, the judge dismissed the Plaintiff’s case for lack of standing, giving the Plaintiff 21 days to amend the complaint.1 Instead

Since December 2023, nationwide, around a dozen class action lawsuits have been filed in federal district courts alleging violations of the same Arizona statute.1 At
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