In a consequential decision for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-regulated entities, on June 20, 2024, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas ruled that the US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights exceeded its authority in certain respects in sub-regulatory guidance. The guidance concerned HIPAA’s application to cookies and other online tracking technologies on HIPAA-regulated entities’ unauthenticated webpages.
Privacy and data protection continue to be an exploding area of focus for regulators in the United States and beyond. This Special Report gives in-house counsel and others responsible for privacy and data protection an overview of some of the major developments in this area in 2012 around the globe, as well as a prediction of what is to come in 2013.
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