On December 14, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights published a notice of a settlement with a dental practice over disclosures of patients’ protected health information over social media. Here is the full version reproduced below: Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022Subject: HHS Civil Rights Office Enters Settlement with…
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Not all HIPAA privacy “breaches” are caused by “hackers” — dentist gets $50k penalty for responding to patient’s Google review
When thinking of HIPAA data breaches, most of us tend to think of situations where the hackers engage in malicious activities against hospitals and steal troves of patients’ protected health information (PHI). There are, however, other much simpler kinds of HIPAA privacy breaches that are easily avoidable and can be quite costly to the healthcare…
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Computer Use Policies – Are Your Company’s Illegal According to the NLRB?
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has continued its assault on businesses and their ability to legitimately protect their computer systems and information against unauthorized non-business use by employees. A few weeks ago, I wrote 3 Important Points on Computer Policies in which I stressed (1) why your company must have them but (2) that…
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Periscope Piracy Sets Up Grudge Match: Hollywood vs. Twitter
This is a prime example of the challenges that the law has when trying to keep up with evolving technology. The technology wins everytime and then we are left to clean up the mess later.
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Why Hackers Love Companies Who Use Social Media – The Point
I read an interesting article that discusses the intersection between social media and cybersecurity. The gist is that the bad guys use information they learn on social media (recall my lessons on business situational awareness) to engage in social engineering / spear phishing attacks based upon that intel. Read more: Why Hackers Love Companies Who Use Social…
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New York Court Permits Service of Divorce Papers via Facebook
Justice Matthew Cooper, of the Manhatten Supreme Court, made a landmark ruling that permits a woman to serve divorce papers on her estranged husband via Facebook messenger. In this case, it only makes sense to permit this: The husband has deserted the wife The husband has no fixed address or place employment The husband’s only contact…
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Part 3 of Series: Simple Ways to Use Social Media to Build Your Practice in One Hour
Here is the third and final post in my 3 part series on Cordell Parvin’s blog: Lawyers: Simple Ways to Use Social Media Marketing in One Hour: Part 3 | Cordell Parvin Blog. If you missed them, here are the first two posts: Part 2 of Series: Simple Ways to Use Social Media Marketing in One…
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Part 2 of Series: Simple Ways to Use Social Media Marketing in One Hour
Here is part 2 of my 3 part guest post series on my coach Cordell Parvin’s blog: Lawyers: Simple Ways to Use Social Media Marketing in One Hour (Part 2) | Cordell Parvin Blog.
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Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in social network posts? No, here is why …
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy in information you post on social networking sites, regardless of what privacy setting you use.
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ISIS Selfies Demonstrate the Connection Between Social Media and Business Situational Awareness
What is Situational Awareness? A Navy SEAL describes situational awareness in this way: “[i]n military-speak, situational awareness is defined as the ability to identify, process, and comprehend the critical elements of information about what is happening to the team with regard to a mission. More simply, it’s being aware of what is going on around you.”…
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