Press Release from HHS (July 13, 2010):

WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced final rules to help improve Americans’ health, increase safety and reduce health care costs through …

Press release from HHS:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, July 8, 2010
For more information about the proposed rule announced today visit http://www.ofr.gov/OFRUpload/OFRData/2010-16718_PI.pdf

Contact: HHS Press Office(202) 690-6343

HHS Strengthens Health Information Privacy and Security through New Rules
New health privacy website launched
HHS …

Concurrent with its release of new rules, HHS has published a new web site with health data privacy and security resources.
From the new site:

Health Data Privacy and Security Resources
HHS respects the privacy of your personal …

Claiming that not enough has been done to protect the privacy rights of patients, the Rhode Island ACLU today filed suit against the R.I. Department of Health (DOH), challenging the inadequacy of rules the agency has …

In an extensive comment filing, advocacy groups urge the FTC to beef up and update COPPA to keep up with new technology.  The signatories of the comment were the following:

The Center for Digital Democracy,
American Academy …

Sometime between March 16 and 24, 2010, a weekly shipment of seven duplicate compact disks (CDs) in the custody of FedEx, were lost while being transported to Lincoln Hospital. These CDs were created by Siemens …

Alaska ACLU Press Release:
ACLU and Keene & Currall Challenge State Violation of Medical Privacy Hundreds of Ketchikan Women’s Medical Records Improperly Seized and Read
KETCHIKAN, AK, June 28, 2010 — The American Civil Liberties Union …

RESULTS IN BRIEF
The names, addresses, Social Security numbers, medical data, and other PII of airmen are not properly secured to prevent unauthorized access and use. We found serious security lapses in FAA’s management of AMEs …

The following is from the White House Statements & Releases site:

Fact Sheet for National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace
Today, June 25th, the draft National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is being released for …

The White House has issued a
Memorandum . . . to help Federal agencies to protect privacy, consistent with law, whenever they use web-based technologies to increase openness in government. . . . [I]t calls for …