Information Security. Corporate Law. Litigation
ICKES\ HOLT would like to wish all of our clients, colleagues, friends, and social media contacts a Merry Christmas and happy and healthy holiday season. 2017 has been a challenging and rewarding year for ICKES\ HOLT. We moved into new offices, obtained new clients, made new friends, and developed new practice areas. Our vision for… Read More
Over the last few years, agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission have fostered a movement to encourage industry to implement the concept of privacy-by-design. The idea behind privacy-by-design is that when developing new software, hardware, medical-devices or other such products that extract personal information, such as personally identifiable information (PII), health care information, geo-tracking… Read More
On November 7, 2016, ICKESHOLT attorneys Jim Ickes and Joel Holt journeyed to Joel’s home-state of Wisconsin to record a webinar for the National Business Institute (http://www.nbi-sems.com/Home.aspx) entitled: “Cybersecurity: the Ultimate Guide.” Suffice it to say, the name and scope of the seminar presented quite a challenge. However, while neither Jim nor Joel would willingly label… Read More
A recent study[i] by the Chicago based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) found that a significant number of hospitals and “non-acute providers”[ii] are not encrypting data in transit or at rest (the “HIMSS Study”).[iii]
Recently, a friend asked me to pay him back for movie tickets via Venmo. For those of you born before 1985, Venmo is a mobile app owned by PayPal which allows users to “[p]ay anyone with a Venmo account instantly using money you have in Venmo, or link your bank account or debit card… Read More
While attending the recent ABA Internet of Things Institute, I heard something troubling from a particular panelist, a data breach class action defense attorney. This attorney, from a monolithic law firm, proclaimed that data breach class-actions were, essentially, on life support as result of the U.S. Supreme Court’s (“SCOTUS”) decision in Clapper v. Amnesty Int’l… Read More
Day 1 of the ABA Internet of Things Institute: So, come to find out, the Internet of Things (“IoT”) is not the precursor to SkyNet or a rampant abuse of power by Big Brother. It is fascinating, and yes, slightly frightening. The simple fact is, the IoT is just like any other rapid advance in… Read More
One recent case that didn’t get much attention, but should have, clarifies Ohio health care providers’ potential exposure for the unauthorized disclosure of patient health information (“PHI”). On August 14, 2015, the Second District Court of Appeals decided Sheldon v. Kettering Health Network. [i] In Sheldon, the Second District addressed patients’ rights related to the… Read More
Information security and privacy is an incredibly broad and pervasive topic. It spans across industries, relates to private and public sectors, affects small business to publicly traded companies, is governed by federal and state legislation, is enforced by regulators and courts, and incorporates IT and legal solutions. Information is the DNA of the… Read More
For the first time since its inception, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) brought the regulatory hammer down on an organization for allegedly misrepresenting the robustness of its data security program to consumers.
Over the last few years, agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission have fostered a movement to encourage industry to implement the concept of privacy-by-design. The idea behind privacy-by-design ... Read More
The National Football League generated $13 billion in revenue in 2016.[i] The next closest professional sports league was Major League Baseball at $9.5 billion. In comparison, the Premier League and ... Read More