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Fox Rothschild LLP

FTC Issues GLBA Safeguard Rule FAQs: What Motor Vehicle Dealers Need to Know

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The FTC has issued FAQs for Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) Safeguards Rule compliance by Motor Vehicle Dealers. Here is what you need to know: Step 1: Are you a financial institution? • You are if you either finance (or...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 18th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes - April 19th - 20th, New York, NY

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Hosted by ACI, 18th Annual Paragraph IV Disputes Conference returns to New York City for another exciting year with curated programming that not only addresses the hot topics, but also puts them within the context of pre-suit...more

McGlinchey Stafford

FTC Extends Effective Date of Safeguard Rule Amendments to June

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that the effective date for the new substantive information security requirements in the revised Safeguard Rule has been extended from December 9, 2022 to June 9, 2023....more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Cybersecurity Regulation: Key Takeaways From an Unusual FTC Order That Will Follow CEO for a Decade

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The FTC recently issued a proposed order that would settle an enforcement action against Drizly, LLC and its co-founder and CEO, James Rellas, arising from data breaches in 2018 and 2020 that affected over 2.5 million...more

Venable LLP

[Webinar] CFPB Weighs in on Data Security; Will Firms with Poor Security Be in the Crosshairs? - October 14th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm...

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In the late summer, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a circular that concluded in no uncertain terms that insufficient data protection or information security could be considered an unfair practice under...more

Wiley Rein LLP

[Webinar] FTC’s Revised Safeguards Rule: How To Navigate New Information Security Requirements - February 16th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm...

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The Federal Trade Commission’s revised Safeguards Rule, which enumerates specific cybersecurity standards and procedures, will impose many new obligations on companies that are covered as “financial institutions” under the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

New Trends Emerge in FTC Data Security Orders, Including Emphasis on C-Suite Involvement

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The FTC recently summarized three major changes it made to its orders in data security cases. In a blog signaling these changes, the FTC Indicated that some of the things it has been requiring of companies in 2019 are here to...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

FTC announces improvements to orders in data security cases

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Yesterday, Andrew Smith, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, announced the following three major improvements that have been made to FTC orders in data security cases...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #220 – Identity Theft Still in Top Three Frauds Reported to FTC

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Three million fraud cases were reported to the FTC in 2018, and 444,602 of them involved identity theft. These reported cases (just think of how high the statistic would be if all cases were reported) amounts to the third...more

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InfoTrax Systems Settles FTC Allegations It Failed to Safeguard Consumer Data

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InfoTrax Systems, a Utah-based technology company, has agreed to implement a comprehensive data security program to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company failed to put in place reasonable security...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #214 – Veterans Warned of Risk of Misuse of Sensitive Personal Information

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The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Inspector General (VA OIG) recently completed an audit of the VA’s Milwaukee Regional Office after it was tipped off by a whistleblower about the exposure of sensitive information...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2019 #4

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Although Amazon and Google respond to reports of vulnerabilities in popular home smart assistants Alexa and Google Home, hackers continually work hard to exploit any vulnerabilities in order to listen to users’ every word to...more

Snell & Wilmer

Taxpayer CyberSecurity — Step 2: Create A Data Security Plan

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The Security Summit, consisting of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”), state tax agencies, and private-sector tax industry officials, is encouraging tax professionals during the 2019 summer season to take some time to...more

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

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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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FTC Toughening Stance on Data Security – Five Key Takeaways from Recent Consent Orders

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The Federal Trade Commission is putting more teeth into the multiyear compliance obligations of consent orders it enters into with companies to settle enforcement actions related to data breaches. The FTC recently issued a...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Long and Wyndham Road: The Federal Trade Commission Extends Section 5 Unfairness to Regulate Data Security

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In a surprising development, Wyndham Worldwide Corporation settled a long running dispute last week with the Federal Trade Commission that arose from three data breaches Wyndham suffered between 2008-2010. After an...more

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