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Do you work for a brokage house, have a subsidiary that is a brokerage house, or do any type of work with a brokerage house? If so, then you should be aware of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed changes to Regulation S-P in March of this year.
In general, the proposed amendments to Regulation S-P...
I was at the Secure360 conference (a fabulous event, btw) this week, and I'm just getting to an important current topic: CAN-SPAM.
On Monday (5/12) the FTC announced an update to the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM) law.
Continue reading CAN-SPAM: Record Judgment Along With Updated Rules...
This morning I took a little time to update my long listing of world-wide data protection (privacy) laws.
Here are some of them you may find helpful:
Continue reading Useful Data Protection (Privacy) Law Sites...
I have written many times about how the U.S Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has severely weakened the planned privacy and security goals of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to require healthcare covered entities (CEs) to implement strong safeguards for the protected health information (PHI) with which they've been entrusted. And I still believe that.
However, after reading a another report today I realized something...
Continue reading HIPAA *HAS* Impacted Healthcare Providers...Despite Lack Of Enforcement...
Iowa introduced a new bill, SSB 3200, on February 20 to establish a state privacy breach notification law.
As originally worded it would have also required merchants to follow credit and debit card industry data security rules and make them liable to banks for costs they incurred after a breach of payment card transaction data not retained in compliance with those rules. However, in the past week SSB 3200 was amended in committee to remove the retailer liability provisions.
A companion bill, HSB 721, was introduced February 26.
Here's an interesting new law in Saudi Arabia...
"New Law to Combat Information Technology Crimes
Continue reading New Information Technology Crime Law in Saudi Arabia...
Another country appears to be on the verge of passing a privacy breach notice law...
Continue reading A New Privacy/Security Breach Notice Law Soon In The Land Down Under?...
While doing some encryption research I ran across this Vermont ruling made on November 29, 2007.
It provides some good lessons about computer forensics and investigation and password management.
Continue reading Privacy, The 5th Amendment And PGP Passwords...
I like to carry extra laptop and cell phone batteries with me when I travel for more than a couple of days at a time, especially if going outside the country. I fried a cell phone once using a faulty outlet converter overseas, so now I like to play it safer by depending upon extra batteries. It was fairly simple to pack the extra batteries into my checked luggage. It was a good simple way to have a backup power source while travelling.
Well, as of next Tuesday that simplicity is no more.
Continue reading New U.S. Law Effective Jan 1 Prohibits Lithium Batteries In Checked Luggage...
On December 10 the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that the FTC commissioners voted unanimously to have principles to govern online behavioral advertising. At the same time they released their proposed principles to guide the development of self-regulation in this area.
Continue reading FTC Behavioral Advertising Privacy Principles: Give Them Your Feedback!...
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