On January 16, 2020, the Senate approved the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, sending it to the President’s desk for ratification.
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Accountability
Mortgage Broker Settles FTC Privacy Charges That It Improperly Disclosed Consumer Information on Review Site
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As reported on our Hunton Retail Law Resource blog, on January 7, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement with Mortgage Solutions FCS, Inc., and its sole principal, Ramon Walker, to resolve allegations that the lender violated the FTC Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, by improperly disseminating consumers’ personal information on Yelp in response to consumers’ negative reviews posted to that site.…
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South Korean Court Imposes Personal Liability on Privacy Officer for Data Breach
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According to MLex, on January 6, 2020, the Seoul Eastern District Court found Kim Jin-Hwan, a privacy officer of the South Korean travel agency Hana Tour Service Inc., guilty of negligence in failing to prevent a 2017 data breach that affected over 465,000 customers of the agency and 29,000 Hana Tour employees.…
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FTC Points to Three Key Changes in Its Effort to Strengthen Data Security Orders
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In a January 6, 2020 blog post, the Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection reflected on how the FTC has taken action over the past year to strengthen its orders in data security cases.…
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OCR’s Second Settlement Under HIPAA Right of Access Initiative
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On December 12, 2019, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights announced its second enforcement action and settlement under its HIPAA Right of Access Initiative.…
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Senate Democrats Unveil Privacy and Data Protection Framework
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On November 18, 2019, the ranking members from four Senate Committees¬ (Senator Maria Cantwell (WA) from Commerce, Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) from Judiciary, Senator Sherrod Brown (OH), and Senator Patty Murray (WA) from Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) released a set of “core principles” for federal privacy legislation. …
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CIPL Issues Discussion Paper on Organizational Accountability in Light of FTC Consent Orders
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On November 13, 2019, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton Andrews Kurth issued a discussion paper on “Organizational Accountability in Light of FTC Consent Orders.”…
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Releases Principles on Artificial Intelligence
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The U.S. Chamber’s Technology Engagement Center (“C_TEC”) and Center for Global Regulatory Cooperation (“GRC”) recently released a set of ten principles essential for attaining the full potential of AI technologies.
The principles, drafted with input from more than 50 Chamber member companies, stress the importance of creating a sensible and innovation-forward approach to addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by AI.
Philippines Submits Notice of Intent to Join the APEC CBPR
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On September 20, 2019, the Philippines National Privacy Commission announced it has filed its notice of intent to join the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rule system.…
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CIPL Responds to Canada’s Reframed Consultation on Transfers for Processing
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On August 5, 2019, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership (“CIPL”) at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP responded to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s (“OPC”) reframed consultation on transfers for processing. The reframed consultation replaced a previously suspended OPC consultation dealing with the same topic to which CIPL had also responded.
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