The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Information Privacy, and the Limits of Default Rules

The other privacy law: preparing for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

Laws Associated with Mobile Computing in the Cloud

This article describes the present and potential legal constraints of mobile computing especially related to cloud computing. Numerous American national laws such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Gramm, Leach, Bliley Act provide industry-related guidelines such as providing employee training on data security. Numerous state laws, as in California, get m...

Opt In Versus Opt Out: A Free-Entry Analysis of Privacy Policies

A public debate exists whether the flow of consumer information should be restricted, and whether privacy laws — such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act for financial institutions — should be amended. We offer a welfare comparison of the three main current policies towards consumer privacy — anonymity, opt in, and opt out — within a two-period address model. These privacy policies shape a firm’s abi...

Privacy Policy Specification and Audit in a Fixed-Point Logic

Organizations such as hospitals and banks that collect and use personal information are required tocomply with privacy regulations like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). With the goal of specification and enforcement of such prac-tical policies, we develop the logic PrivacyLFP, whose syntax is an extension of the fi...

Forgiveness means never having to say you're not insured.

arious types of insurance are vital to the healthcare industry to protect institutions, physicians, and patients. But what is the appropriate type of insurance to indemnify data destruction providers? This article will explain a misconception about insurance that may be putting both HIM professionals and their clients at risk. For decades there have been questions about the proper type of insur...