On January 28, 2011, Connecticut’s newly-elected Attorney General George Jepsen announced an agreement with Google concerning the company’s refusal to comply with a December 2010 Civil Investigative Demand.
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Connecticut Fines Health Net $375,000 for Data Breach
On November 8, 2010, Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Thomas Sullivan announced that his department and Health Net had reached an agreement related to the insurer’s alleged failures to protect member personal information.
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Key Voice on Privacy Issues Loses Congressional Reelection Bid While Another Joins the Senate
Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) lost his Congressional race yesterday, leaving a vacancy on the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet. Aggressive consumer advocate Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) won a seat in the Senate.
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Connecticut Insurance Department Issues Five-Day Breach Reporting Requirement
On August 18, 2010, Connecticut’s Insurance Department published new regulations requiring entities subject to its jurisdiction to report any information security incident affecting Connecticut residents within five days of discovery.
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Coalition of States Demands Answers About Google Street View
In a letter sent to Google on July 21, 2010, a multistate working group demanded more information about Street View data collection practices, including a list of states where such collection took place and details on how the data may have been used.
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Connecticut Attorney General to Lead Multistate Investigation into Google
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating the activities of Google Street View cars in Connecticut, and has asked Google to provide further information regarding its wireless data collection and retention practices.
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Attorney General Launches New HIPAA Investigation
After becoming the first state attorney general to exercise HITECH Act enforcement authority earlier this year, Connecticut’s AG Richard Blumenthal is investigating new allegations of possible HIPAA violations involving hospital patient records.
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Connecticut AG Files First HITECH Act Suit
In a lawsuit he described as “[s]adly . . . historic,” Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal sued Health Net of Connecticut, Inc. for allegedly failing to secure private patient medical records and financial information involving hundreds of thousands of Connecticut enrollees and promptly notify consumers endangered by the security breach. The case marks the first action by a state attorney general under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Act to enforce provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). The suit also alleges a violation of Connecticut’s breach notification statute.
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Connecticut Attorney General Investigation Sheds Light on Meaning of “Unreasonable Delay” in Data Breach Context
On November 9, 2009, Connecticut’s Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, announced an investigation of whether Blue Cross and Blue Shield (“BCBS”) violated Connecticut’s data breach notification law by waiting until two months after a data breach had occurred to notify affected Connecticut residents. The data breach, which Attorney General Blumenthal called “one of the most sizable and significant in Connecticut’s history,” involved the theft of a laptop containing confidential unencrypted data from the car of a BCBS employee in late August. BCBS notified affected Connecticut residents of the breach in late October.
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