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TIMELY UPDATES AND AN*LYSIS ON PRIVACY AND CYBERSECURITY ISSUES. will include obligations specific to data brokers. A “data broker” is defined as a business that “knowingly collects and sells or licenses to third parties the brokered personal information of a consumer with whom the business does not have a direct relationship.” Under the law, data brokers must keep a record of “data broker breaches” and annually tell this information to the state. Brokers will need to provide this as part of a new annual registration process. The registration also requires data brokers to explain how they let individuals opt-out of having information collected, stored or sold. Finally, data brokers also have to develop and maintain a comprehensive information security program. Continue Reading. COMPANY’S VENDOR SUFFERS BREACH, NO BUSINESS AS*OCIATE AGREEMENT, $500K OCR SETTLEMENT. the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. The settlement comes after an investigation revealed that the company, Advanced Care Hospitalists, disclosed the protected health information of 9,255 people to a third-party billing company without having a business as*ociate agreement in place. Specifically, patient names, date of births and social security numbers were provided to the billing company. The settlement followed a data breach at the billing company. Namely, the PHI was exposed on the billing company’s In another change to US state breach notice laws in 2019, South Carolina will have new breach notice requirements for insurance first to adopt the model text into law, and it is this law that is going into effect on January 1, 2019.  South Carolina joins others will be a supplement to the requirements that financial companies, including insurance companies, already face under Gramm-Leach-Bliley Information Technology companies. The AGs allege that the companies, Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC, had poor security practices that led to medical data breaches. Those breaches impacting close to four million