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Cyberattacks: An Underlying Condition Exacerbated By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Kaitlyn Palmeter
Cyberattacks: An Underlying Condition Exacerbated By The Covid-19 Pandemic, Kaitlyn Palmeter
The Journal of Business, Entrepreneurship & the Law
COVID-19 continues to change the world in unforeseen ways triggering a new era of corporate data breaches. This article will illustrate how cyberattacks have increased in severity during the pandemic, how current laws and government officials are trying to evolve with the current threats and technology, how victims of cyberattacks risk sanctions and potential lawsuits, and concludes by suggesting solutions throughout to increase Cybersecurity.
Health Information Equity, Craig Konnoth
Health Information Equity, Craig Konnoth
Publications
In the last few years, numerous Americans’ health information has been collected and used for follow-on, secondary research. This research studies correlations between medical conditions, genetic or behavioral profiles, and treatments, to customize medical care to specific individuals. Recent federal legislation and regulations make it easier to collect and use the data of the low-income, unwell, and elderly for this purpose. This would impose disproportionate security and autonomy burdens on these individuals. Those who are well-off and pay out of pocket could effectively exempt their data from the publicly available information pot. This presents a problem which modern research ethics …
Ohio's Aggressive Attack On Medical Identity Theft, Stanley C. Ball
Ohio's Aggressive Attack On Medical Identity Theft, Stanley C. Ball
Journal of Law and Health
This note explains the severity of medical identity theft and the state and federal legislative reactions to the problem. Specifically, the note discusses data breach notification statutes that require healthcare providers to notify consumers when the systems holding customer personal information are breached. The note concludes that Ohio’s data breach notification statute, which does not expressly cover healthcare providers, should be amended to protect residents from medical identity theft and provide redress when healthcare providers violate state law.