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Insights for this month’s article are provided by ARDA members Gregory Szewczyk, partner at Ballard Spahr Practice Leader of the firm’s Privacy and Data Security Group, and Aaron Tantleff, partner in Foley & Lardner’s...more
For years, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) has required financial institutions to maintain reasonable safeguards for consumer data, but has only had limited breach-reporting requirements. To the extent financial...more
On April 4, 2024, Kentucky became the fifteenth state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law, with Governor Andy Beshear signing the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act (KCDPA) into law. The Kentucky law will go into...more
On Friday, October 27, the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") announced new amendments to the Safeguards Rule, requiring covered financial institutions to report certain data breaches to the FTC and reflecting its continuing...more
On October 27, 2023, the FTC approved an amendment to the Safeguards Rule (the “Amendment”) requiring that non-banking financial institutions notify the FTC in the event of a defined “Notification Event” where customer...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) voted on March 15, 2023, to propose three new sets of rules for data security, cybersecurity, and IT operational resilience. The newly proposed rules would, among...more
Welcome to this month's issue of The BR Privacy & Security Download, the digital newsletter of Blank Rome’s Privacy, Security & Data Protection practice....more
The financial services sector must already contend with a maze of regulations in a variety of areas, and 2023 is poised to usher in new cybersecurity regulations for the industry. Organizations should ensure their security...more
INTRODUCTION - As more of our lives and work become digitized, an inherent overlap continues to grow between data privacy and cyber security programs. Think of two similarly sized circles: in the past, data privacy and cyber...more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we review the FTC’s proposed data privacy and cybersecurity rulemaking and the European Data Protection Board’s draft guidelines on the calculation of GDPR administrative fines....more
The financial technology (“Fintech”) industry has boomed over the last decade, from the rise of mobile payment apps, robo-advisers, lending platforms, consumer-friendly brokerages to cryptocurrency trading platforms. By their...more
As reported in a June 3, 2022 press release from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, and Senator Roger Wicker released a “discussion draft” of a federal data...more
Editor’s Note: Organizations continue calling for a comprehensive federal privacy law, and U.S. states continue trying to fill the void by proposing their own such laws. The latest states to do so include Mississippi and...more
FTC Announces Regulatory Priorities for 2022 - On December 10, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published its Statement of Regulatory Priorities (“Announcement”) for 2022. The FTC’s priorities for the coming year...more
Following the SolarWinds and the Colonial Pipeline cyberattacks, the Biden Administration emphasized a shift toward mandatory cybersecurity requirements. Throughout 2021, government agencies issued new cybersecurity guidance,...more
This year saw a number of significant changes on both the state and federal levels with regard to data privacy and data security. These changes reflect the increasing focus on the digital landscape to which the global economy...more
The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently updated the Safeguards Rule under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”), which is applicable to financial institutions, to strengthen data security requirements for consumer...more
On October 27, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a final rule (Final Rule) and supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Safeguards Rule promulgated under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA),...more
On October 27, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced revisions to its Safeguards Rule (Revised Safeguards Rule), which requires certain financial institutions to implement information security programs to protect...more
Connecticut’s new cybersecurity standards law, which goes into effect on October 1, 2021, protects companies from punitive damages in certain data breach actions where an organization has a cybersecurity program that conforms...more
On February 25th, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its annual Privacy and Data Security Update, which highlights the FTC’s activities during the past year....more
GLBA, sometimes called the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, is a U.S. banking law that has important privacy and data security requirements for institutions that are subject to the law. The law applies to “any...more
On June 12, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it had reached a proposed settlement with LightYear Dealer Technologies, LLC (doing business as "DealerBuilt") over allegations that the automobile software...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) publishes a comprehensive annual update detailing the significant actions it has taken to protect American consumers’ privacy and data security....more