The EU Parliament Committee in charge of reviewing the EU Commission’s Proposal for an e-Privacy Regulation (Proposal) recently released a Draft Report proposing amendments to the regulation.
The e-Privacy Regulation will regulate new electronic communication
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On August 25, 2016, investment firm Muddy Waters Research announced it had taken a short position in St. Jude Medical, Inc., and released a report suggesting a “strong possibility that close to half of” St.
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On March 1, 2017, new cybersecurity rules went into effect for entities regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS). The Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies are designed to help protect business and customer information and the IT systems of the entities that DFS regulates. While the Cybersecurity Requirements took effect on March 1, regulated entities have 180 days to comply. The final requirements are available here.
Who Is Regulated?
The Cybersecurity Requirements apply to companies “operating under or required to operate under a license, registration, charter, certificate, permit, accreditation or similar authorization under the banking law, the insurance law or the financial services law” (“covered entities”). Covered entities include banks, savings and loans, trust companies, check cashers, credit unions, money transmitters, lenders, insurers, holding companies, investment companies, mortgage brokers, originators, and servicers, and certain other regulated types of companies doing business in New York. Smaller covered entities are exempt from certain components of the Cybersecurity Requirements, but they are required to file an exemption form with DFS.
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The W-2 phishing scams are back. Fraudsters have learned that W-2 phishing scams can be highly effective when targeting businesses while they are handling and sending employee income-tax-related documents early in a new year. Once
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On January 10, 2017, the European Commission published a Proposal for a Regulation that if adopted would have significant and far-reaching implications for Internet-based services and technologies.
The proposal seeks to revise the current EU
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Those with experience working with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) exchange any number of acronyms freely: CPB (Bureau of Consumer), DPIP (Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, part of the CPB), and, perhaps the
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