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SEC Revamps and Enhances Data Protections with Amendments to Regulation S-P

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has announced the adoption of amendments to Regulation S-P (“Amendments”) to modernize and enhance the rules that govern the treatment of consumers’ nonpublic personal...more

Quarles & Brady LLP

Friendly Reminder - Finalize and Post Your Consumer Health Data Privacy Notice Before March 31

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Friendly reminder – the Washington My Health My Data Act (“WMHMDA”) compliance deadline for regulated entities to post their consumer health data privacy policy is March 31, 2024 (June 30, 2024 for small businesses). A...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Are Your Workers Data Protectors or Stewards? For Best Results, Organizations Should Foster Both

In some respects, assuring compliance with HIPAA has always been a challenge because many health care providers, particularly physicians, pride themselves on maintaining patient confidentiality—even when they aren’t. Nurses,...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

FTC Actions Hold Data Privacy Lessons For 2023

The Federal Trade Commission will have its eye on privacy and data security enforcement in 2023. In August, the agency announced that it is exploring ways to crack down on lax data security practices. In the announcement,...more

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10 Things Providers Should Know About California’s Data Exchange Framework

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By January 31, 2023, general acute care hospitals, clinical labs and certain physician organizations and medical groups in California are required to enter into the Single Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) to participate in the...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Non-Profit Organizations Can Reduce Risks by Addressing Data Privacy Concerns in Advance

With the threat of cyber-attacks making the news, it is a good time for all non-profit organizations to review their policies and procedures with respect to data privacy. Many non-profit organizations are particularly...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Hybrid Workforces and Compliance with Sheila Limmroth

Hybrid work is likely here to say, and, as Sheila Limmroth, privacy specialist at DCH Health System, and the author of the chapter Hybrid Work Environment in the Complete Healthcare Compliance Manual observes in this...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

AGG Celebrates Data Privacy Day 2022 With 5 Key Data Privacy Considerations for Businesses

Started in Europe in 2007, Data Privacy Day, or Data Protection Day as it is known internationally, is an international effort that takes place annually on January 28 to create awareness of the importance of data privacy. In...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

SEC Cyber Enforcement Actions – Lessons for Private Fund Managers

On August 30, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced three enforcement actions against registered investment advisers for alleged cybersecurity failures involving cloud-based email systems. All three actions...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

NGE On Demand: Cybersecurity Considerations for Emerging Companies with Michael Gray and David Wheeler

NGE Corporate & Securities partner Michael Gray recently interviewed Data Privacy & Information Governance partner David Wheeler about the cybersecurity needs for small and emerging companies. The discussion focused on the...more

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4 Things to Know About Updated NIST 800-53 Standards

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[author: Matt Kelly] In September 2020 the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled the fifth version of its cybersecurity standard formally known as SP 800-53, “Security and Privacy Controls for...more

McAfee & Taft

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: 3 tips to jump-start your cybersecurity preparedness

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We are all facing new challenges in this pandemic, including the shift to and growth of remote work. Meanwhile, we also have to contend with the increased volume of attempted cyberattacks. Despite the distraction of the...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Law Brief: The Requirements of the SHIELD Act and Other Recommendations for Virtual Business Operations

Intellectual Property Co-chair Amy Goldsmith and Co-Founder & Managing Partner at AcceleratingCFO Brian Califano join Litigation Partner and host Rich Schoenstein to chat about “The Requirements of the SHIELD Act and Other...more

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Privacy in the Time of Pandemic: COVID-19 Provides Opportunity to Revisit Regulation S-P Privacy Policies

With more people working remotely than ever before in light of COVID-19, firms in the private equity and hedge fund space should review their Regulation S-P privacy and information-safeguarding policies to ensure they are...more

Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP

Bringing Your Business Online: Written Information Security Programs (WISPs)

The current COVID-19 pandemic has forced many businesses online in order to survive. In many cases, businesses had no plans to be online. Others were forced to move online more quickly than planned. In order to assist these...more

Franczek P.C.

The Real Risk of Data Breach And What Schools Can Do To Be Prepared

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This summer, Pearson notified a handful of Illinois school districts that its AIMSweb 1.0 Platform had experienced a data breach that impacted over 13,000 account holders nationally. ...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Preparing for New York’s New Data Security Requirements

New York recently passed the SHIELD Act, which, among other things, newly establishes data security requirements for companies that collect private information about New York residents. The data security protections required...more

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New York Expands The Data Breach Umbrella: More Cybersecurity Incidents Will Require Breach Compliance From Businesses Who Possess...

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On July 25, 2019, New York Governor Anthony Cuomo signed the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (SHIELD Act) into law. The Act creates additional protections for the residents of New York and their private...more

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Recent FTC Settlements Highlight Risks of Flawed Information Security Practices and Related Representations

In a set of recent settlements, the Federal Trade Commission (the FTC or Commission) resolved charges against two companies, ClixSense and D-Link, for failing to provide reasonable security and to live up to their data...more

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Strict Privacy and Data Security Bill Introduced in North Carolina

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Early last year, I posted about tougher, bi-partisan privacy and data security legislation in the works in North Carolina. North Carolina State Representative Jason Saine (R), Senior Appropriations Chair, teamed-up with North...more

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SEC Warns Registered Firms about Client Privacy and Data Security

• The SEC released a Risk Alert summarizing key areas in which it continues to see compliance deficiencies related to Regulation S-P, the primary SEC rule regarding privacy notices and safeguard policies of investment...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

SEC Warns Advisers Over Privacy Compliance Issues

The Securities and Exchange Commission is warning investment firms to step up their game when it comes to following the agency’s privacy rules. In a Risk Alert issued by the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations...more

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The SEC Released A Risk Alert On Reg S-P, a/k/a How To Avoid A $1 Million Penalty

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I am hardly saying that SEC Regulation S-P is the sexiest of regulations. I mean, has any customer is history actually read one of those exciting statement stuffers that discloses in some dense font a BD’s privacy policy?...more

BCLP

Meet the CCPA: Employer FAQs #3

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In the coming weeks we will be releasing a series of FAQs examining the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) of particular importance to employers. These FAQs should help employers determine if they are required to comply...more

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New Jersey’s Anticipated Expansion of Data Breach & Privacy Laws

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An amendment to New Jersey’s data breach notification requirements of the Consumer Fraud Act is currently awaiting signature by State Governor Phil Murphy. The bill, Assembly No. 3245, was recently passed by both the New...more

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