Iliana L. Peters, Esq.

About The Lecturer

ILIANA L. PETERS is recognized by the health care industry as a preeminent thinker and speaker on data privacy and security, particularly with regard to HIPAA, the HITECH Act, the 21st Century Cures Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), FERPA, the Privacy Act, state law data privacy and security requirements, and emerging cyber threats to data. ILIANA works closely with her clients on complex compliance questions, incident response, investigations, and training to protect data and avoid legal risk and liability at both the state and federal levels. ILIANA also supports clients’ defense in individual and class-action litigation related to all types of data privacy, security, and breach claims.

As a CISSP, she works hard to bridge the gap between legal requirements for the security of health data and security industry best practices, so that clients can better understand data security issues and jargon. ILIANA enjoys using her extensive experience drafting, implementing, and enforcing health privacy and security regulations and guidance in a practice that focuses on helping clients develop and implement good data privacy and security practices to avoid risk, and helping clients prepare for and recover from emerging cyber threats.

For many years, ILIANA developed information privacy and security policies, including those on emerging technologies and cyber threats, for the Department of Health and Human Services, while coordinating with the Department of Justice, the Department of Education, other federal agencies, State Attorneys General, and the White House. She enforced HIPAA regulations by spearheading multimillion-dollar settlement agreements and civil money penalties. She then focused on training individuals in both the private and public sectors, including compliance investigators, auditors, and State Attorneys General, on federal and state regulations and policies, as well as on good data privacy and security practices.

ILIANA believes that good data privacy and security are fundamental to ensuring consumer participation in new technologies, employee-employer relationships, patients’ trust in the health care system, students’ confidence in their education, and helping all clients succeed in an ever-changing landscape of data security threats.

Publications

February 07, 2023

“First-of-Its-Kind” FTC Breach Enforcement Case on Hot-Button Website Tracking Issue

February 02, 2023

Tech Transactions & Data Privacy 2023 Report

January 17, 2023

HHS-OCR Guidance for Online Tracking Technologies

December 15, 2022

Emerging Threats: Cyber Attacks and Side-Channel Evolution

December 06, 2022

How Health Care Professionals Can Limit Their Liability Following a Cyber Attack

Education

Duke University School of Law (J.D., Recognition for Outstanding Contribution to the Pro Bono Project, 2002)

• Hispanic Law Students Association

University of Texas at Austin (B.A., Special Honors, 1999)

• Plan II and Anthropology

University of Houston Law Center (LL.M., 2004)

• Health Law

• Health Law and Policy Institute