Duty LXD-1063
Processes personal data, in the Northern Mariana Islands
CNMI Consumer Protection Act, general applicabilitysince 2 lines
4 CMC §§ 5101-5123 · Read the law's page
- Do not misrepresent the sponsorship, approval, characteristics, or affiliation of your product, service, or automated system to a Commonwealth consumer, including a chatbot or AI agent that could be mistaken for a human representative.
- Expect the CNMI Attorney General's Consumer Counsel, or a private plaintiff, to be the enforcer of a false data-handling or privacy representation, since the Commonwealth has no dedicated data-protection regulator or comprehensive privacy statute.
Patient's Rights Act: access to mental health care records and consent before releasesince 3 lines
3 CMC § 2561 · Read the law's page
- If you are an evaluation or treatment facility, give a person access, on request, to the person's mental health care records, except information a third party gave on the assurance that it would stay confidential and material the responsible mental health professional or physician has determined in writing would be detrimental to the person's health (3 CMC 2561(a)).
- If you are an evaluation or treatment facility, do not disclose any information concerning an individual's record of treatment unless the individual or another person authorized by law expressly consents in writing, or you receive a court order authorizing the disclosure (3 CMC 2561(b)).
- If you are a prospective employer, do not ask a job applicant whether he or she has ever sought or been hospitalized for evaluation, treatment or care for mental illness (3 CMC 2561(d)).
Patient's Rights Act: civil action for wrongful release of confidential information or recordssince 1 line
3 CMC § 2562 · Read the law's page
- If you are an individual or agency that holds confidential information or records about a person under the Patient's Rights Act, do not willfully and knowingly release them in violation of that Act (3 CMC 2562(a)).
Cancer Registry: reporting of new cancer cases to the Department of Public Health and confidentiality of the datasince 2 lines
3 CMC § 2852 · Read the law's page
- If you provide diagnostic or treatment services for cancer patients in the CNMI, report each new case of cancer to the Department of Public Health, with demographic information, occupational history to the extent available from the same record, administrative information, pathological data and any other element the Department determines (3 CMC 2852).
- If you hold data collected for the cancer registry, keep it confidential as to the names of the persons or physicians concerned, and use a person's name for research only when requesting additional information for a study the Secretary of Public Health has approved (3 CMC 2852).