Microsoft backs new privacy rule
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, November 14, 2005
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Microsoft put its support behind a federal privacy rule that supersedes current federal and state laws, including HIPAA.
In a recent speech and report, Brad Smith, Microsoft's lawyer, noted that there is a "bewildering jumble of overlapping state and federal laws" that makes it tough for businesses to comply, reports Computer Business Review (CBR). "For example, personal information collected by a bank is covered by one privacy standard, but that same information collected by a hospital is covered by a different standard," Smith said.
CBR reports that Microsoft has the following goals for a federal privacy law:
- Precedence over all other state and federal privacy laws, and uniformity with foreign privacy rules
- A transparency mandate that requires notifications when privacy policies are changed and a consumer right-to-know
- A security aspect that protects against unauthorized use or loss of private data
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