Technology & Intellectual Property Update

In March 2019, the European Parliament voted to adopt new legislation regarding online content, and, in April, the European Union (the “EU”) member nations approved the Parliament’s directive. The Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (the “Directive”) is intended to harmonize EU law with international law and to […]

Last month, we updated you on the proposed Washington Privacy Act (SB 5376) and the fact that the law, if passed, would mirror the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). Despite passing the Washington Senate almost unanimously and being supported by the technology industry, the bill hit a roadblock […]

This May, Timothy Noonan (“Noonan”), acting deputy director for health information privacy at the Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”), sat for a Q&A session at the International Association of Privacy Professional’s (“IAPP”) annual Global Privacy Summit in Washington, DC. Noonan discussed a variety of topics, including OCR’s HIPAA enforcement priorities, […]

Washington is gearing up to be the next state to implement a privacy law, following California’s Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). On March 6, 2019, SB 5376—formally titled as “an act relating to the management and oversight of personal data,” or the “Washington Privacy Act” for short—passed the Washington Senate and […]

Medical devices are subject to numerous regulations and an intensive approval process to verify their safety for patient use–but what about the software that powers these devices? How secure is the software that operates insulin pumps or pacemakers? In addition to the requirement that medical device software meet general Food […]