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U.S. Treasury Department announces amendments to OFAC's Cuba regulations

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • Cuba, USA
  • -
  • September 3 2009

Today, the U.S. Treasury Department announced significant amendments to OFAC’s Cuban Assets Control Regulations which are meant to implement an April 2009 Presidential initiative on Cuba

Extraterritorial penalties issued against non-U.S. bank

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 26 2009

On August 24, 2009, the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced its settlement of the Australia and New Zealand Bank Group, Ltd.'s (ANZ) alleged violations of the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations (SSR) and the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR

Red Flags Rule deadline again extended

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 9 2009

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will "delay enforcement" until November 1, 2009, of the Red Flags Rule, previously scheduled to begin in August 2009

OFAC issues general license for TSRA exports to specified areas in Sudan

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 10 2009

On September 9, 2009, OFAC issued a general license authorizing U.S. persons to export and reexport agricultural commodities, medicine and medical devices to Southern Sudan, Southern KordofanNuba Mountains State, Blue Nile State, Abyei, Darfur and marginalized areas in and around Khartoum (Specified Areas

European privacy headaches: a chance to be heard?

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • European Union, USA
  • -
  • October 16 2009

An ordinary part of doing business internationally or online is collecting and using personal information across borders

OFAC issues tailored general licenses authorizing certain internet-based communications and related software downloads

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 11 2010

The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has issued general licenses authorizing a limited set of free internet-based communications with persons in Cuba, Iran and Sudan

FTC again delays Red Flags Rule enforcement

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 13 2009

The FTC announced on October 30, 2009, that it is delaying enforcement of the identity theft Red Flags Rule until June 1, 2010

Congress rattling its saber at Iran

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 16 2009

Congress is working to inflict greater economic pain on Iran unless it abandons its nuclear weapon ambitions

Privacy threatens online ads

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 16 2010

Broadcasters may comment until January 31, 2011 on how the proposed privacy framework of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) should be improved

Law enforcement may require a warrant to access stored emails in the Sixth Circuit, and ECPA reform needed now more than ever

  • Wiley Rein LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 17 2010

A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently ruled that obtaining stored email communications without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment, and that the Stored Communications Act (SCA), 18 U.S.C. 2701 et seq., part of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), is unconstitutional to the extent that it purports to authorize such warrantless government access