This is the seventh alert in a series of Bradley installments on privacy and cybersecurity developments arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Click to read the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth installments.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has re-introduced a bill to create the Public Health Emergency Privacy Act (PHEPA).
Many relief programs have been implemented over the past year in response to COVID-19, and keeping up with the changing requirements for these programs can be daunting. A new twist in the requirements is the mandate for implementation of privacy requirements under the Emergency Rental Assistance Program. Here are some details about the Emergency Rental
The privacy law landscape is constantly changing, and it can feel like a daunting task for businesses to keep up with the laws of 50 states in the U.S. plus any international laws that also may be applicable. 2020 seems to be a banner year for change on many fronts. COVID-19 and the 2020 elections
Back in March we wrote about Address Confidentiality Programs (ACPs) as the “high stakes compliance risk you probably haven’t heard of.” These state-sponsored programs were traditionally designed to protect victims of crimes such as domestic abuse, sexual assault, stalking, or human trafficking from perpetrators who seek to find and harm their victims. Since that first
On July 15, 2020, the state of Virginia adopted the first of its kind COVID-19 workplace safety mandate. Propelled by months of inaction from a federal agency tasked with nationwide enforcement of workplace safety relating to COVID-19, Virginia’s Safety and Health Codes Board adopted an emergency regulation designed to establish requirements for employers to control,