Innovation in Compliance - Improving Third - Party Risk Management with Paul Valente
The “Catch-22” of Preference Law
Gerry Blass on Healthcare Vendor Risk Management
Cyberside Chats: Would you bury your driver's license? (with Whitney McCollum)
Matt Silverman on Export Compliance
Thobekile Cynthia Khumalo on Third Party Due Diligence
Sitting with the C-Suite: Blending eDiscovery Vendors and Law Firms
Ledgers and Law: Real-World Planning for Cyber Attacks
Education Data Privacy and Security Laws: Best Practices for School Districts
In House Counsel: How To Measure the Effectiveness of Your Staffing Strategy
Sitting with the C-Suite: Identifying Opportunities to Leverage Human Capital
Lessons for Health, Beauty & Wellness Companies [Part 2]: What Options Exist for a Vendor During Bankruptcy
Lessons for Health, Beauty & Wellness Companies: What to do When Your Buyer is in Financial Distress
Sitting with the C-Suite: How Should In-House Counsel Evaluate eDiscovery Service?
Strategies for Restaurant Owners to Survive in the New Normal
Compliance Perspectives: Supply Chain Compliance Challenges
The CCPA for the Land Title Industry: Service Providers and Sale of Data Under the CCPA
Compliance Perspectives: Supply Chains, Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Episode 120: Interview of NAVEX Global Third-Party Risk Officials: Chris Bailey and Stephen Gooding
PODCAST: Williams Mullen GovCon Perspectives - Recent Updates to the SWaM Certification Process in Virginia
This article originally appeared on Thomson Reuters Westlaw Today on February 12, 2024. View the original article here. Robert Daniel and Mark Grant of Integreon, Inc. explore areas legal operations professionals should...more
In Scott v. Collecto, Inc., the plaintiff filed a complaint in state court alleging a violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and common law negligence based on the defendant’s use of a letter vendor to...more
The Third Circuit Court of Appeal recently weighed in on the burgeoning number of cases alleging that debt collector use of mailing vendors requires communication with a third party about consumer debt that violates the Fair...more
In this episode of Consumer Finance Compass, Balch’s Jason Tompkins, partner in Balch & Bingham’s Consumer Finance Compliance & Defense Practice, explores the Seventh Circuit’s new decision ruling that the disclosure of...more
Financial services companies beware: the new state privacy laws exemption are not uniform. To recap, there are privacy laws in 12 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee,...more
Tech Vendors and Cybersecurity – Are They Responsible? It has long been recommended that when you contract with a technology vendor that you include an indemnity clause in the contract wherein the vendor will indemnify you...more
Baker McKenzie recently released their sixth annual edition of ‘The Year Ahead: Global Disputes Forecast’ in which senior legal and risk leaders share what they expect to see in the coming year. From an overarching...more
Hackers have increasingly focused on third-party vendors as avenues to data held by associated businesses. On August 25, 2022, DoorDash announced that it had experienced a data breach which impacted the personal...more
The CCPA has reached the two-year mark. This is a good time for businesses to review the success of their compliance programs, recalibrate for the CCPA’s third year, and gear up for the CPRA’s January 1, 2023 effective...more
Data breaches by large companies have been in the news for some time. Over the last several years several companies, including Marriott, Yahoo and Volkswagon, have been victimized by hackers who have broken into a company’s...more
On November 3, 2020, Californians voted to pass Proposition 24, expanding and modifying the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which came into force on January 1, 2020. The new California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”)...more
On June 14, 2021, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued a one-line order stating that the Court was withholding issuance of the mandate in Hunstein v. Preferred Collection and Management Services, Inc....more
Last month, in a very troubling decision of first impression, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed the lower court’s dismissal of the plaintiff’s FDCPA claim, instead ruling that...more
Does the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (the FDCPA) apply to communications between a debt collector and its vendors? And, is the FDCPA a consumer privacy statute? In an apparent issue of first impression, the...more
Now that Californians have approved the California Privacy Rights Act, what does it mean for the California Consumer Privacy Act and, more importantly, your business? Our Privacy & Data Security Group identifies nine...more
Kestra Investment Services LLC (“Kestra”) was fined $125,000 by FINRA for sharing personal customer data with a third-party vendor. Kestra had engaged the vendor to assist newly hired brokers with the transfer of customer...more
The Internet of Things (IoT) products have become a way of life. There are huge benefits of “smart” products, which interact through the internet to gather and exchange data to provide additional functions, security, and easy...more
The short answer is “no”. The CCPA has a specific definition for “service provider” at Section 1798.140(v) – and it also requires a vendor to be bound by a written contract that prohibits it from...more
No. The CCPA requires that a service provider agree to substantive restrictions involving the retention, use, and disclosure of personal information. While the CCPA does not mandate that a business include any other...more