FAQ on the “BEST PRACTICES Act”– Part One
Congressman Bobby Rush has introduced a new data privacy bill to Congress known as the “Building Effective Strategies to Promote Responsibility Accountability Choice Transparency Innovation Consumer...
View ArticleFAQ on the “BEST PRACTICES Act”– Part Two
We recently published the first part of our FAQ series on Congressman Bobby Rush’s new data privacy bill known as “Building Effective Strategies to Promote Responsibility Accountability Choice...
View ArticleAs California Goes, so Goes the Nation? Part One
Many of you probably read earlier this month that California’s Office of Administrative Law ("OAL") approved the California Department of Insurance’s ("DOI") proposal to repeal certain privacy...
View ArticleA Novel Data Security Law Proposed in Colorado
There has been a lot of buzz around various privacy and security bills presented on the Federal level, including the reintroduction of the BEST PRACTICES ACT and a new privacy bill put out by...
View Article“Privacy by Design”: A Key Concern for VCs and Start-Ups
(co-authored by Nicole Friess, Esq.) The privacy landscape appears to be shifting toward a model that promotes greater consumer awareness of and control over data. Reflecting its consumer protection...
View ArticleChanges to HIPAA Privacy Rule Proposed by HHS – Find Out Who Has Accessed...
On May 31, 2011 the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights issued a notice of proposed rulemaking that would add substantial data privacy requirements to the HIPAA Privacy...
View ArticleChesbro v. Best Buy Stores, L.P.: Court Rejects Defense of “Informational” Calls
Andrew Hoffman contributed to this post. What makes an automated call “telemarketing” versus “informational”? It might be less than you think. In a recent ruling out of the Ninth Circuit, Chesbro v....
View ArticleFTC’s Amended COPPA Rule Seeks to Keep Up with the Internet Revolution
The FTC announced that it had finalized amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, which the FTC originally enacted in 2000. The original Rule was created with the goal...
View ArticleVISA Phases Out the Account Data Compromise Recovery (ADCR) Process and...
In October 2012, VISA quietly released new operating regulations which retroactively phased out VISA’s Account Data Compromise Recovery (ADCR) Process, and replaced it with the Global Compromised...
View ArticleOnline Retailers Stumped by Internet Marketing Self-Regulation in an...
By Boris Segalis and Andrew L. Hoffman While the Internet can be thought of as a Wild West of many things, regulation is rarely thought as being one of them. However, at the height of the 2012 holiday...
View ArticleCOPPA AND RECENT AMENDMENTS TO THE COPPA RULE: A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW
By Justine Young Gottshall And Damien Wint As we approach six months since the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, 16 C.F.R. Part...
View ArticleCaveat Venditor: FTC Amends Telemarketing Sales Rule to Enhance Anti-Fraud...
On November 18, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a final rule setting forth a number of key amendments to its Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR). [FN1] Specifically, in response to...
View ArticleInfoLawGroup Launches CPO on Demand™ Service
InfoLawGroup announces the launch of CPO on Demand™, a service through which we serve as outside Chief Privacy Officers, Privacy Counsel, and DPOs as required under EU regulation. CPO on Demand™ brings...
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