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PCI compliance survey finds companies need improvement

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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USA
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October 2 2009

The Ponemon Institute recently published a survey on Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards ("PCI DSS") compliance

Virginia issues guidance on information security program requirement

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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USA
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October 2 2009

The Virginia State Corporation Commission Bureau of Insurance (the "Bureau") recently issued a bulletin to provide guidance on the development and implementation of privacy safeguards to all insurers, health service plans, health maintenance organizations, surplus lines brokers and other interested parties

Final rules issued for breach of electronic health information

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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USA
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September 17 2009

In the last week of August, 2009, the Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") and the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") officially published their final rules concerning consumer notification of breaches of protected health information ("PHI"

Public hearing on Massachusetts information security regulations

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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USA
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September 24 2009

On September 22, 2009, Socheth Sor of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP testified at a public hearing before the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulations (“OCABR”) in Boston regarding 201 CMR 17.00, Standards for the Protection of Personal Information of Residents of the Commonwealth

District of Maine certifies question of what constitutes “cognizable injury” from data breach to Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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USA
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November 11 2009

Last month, the United States District Court for the District of Maine certified a question of law to the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine regarding the issue of what constitutes cognizable injury to a consumer in a case stemming from the alleged theft of credit card data, a question of great signficance in the relatively new field of data security law

In American Bar Association v. Federal Trade Commission, federal court prohibits FTC from enforcing Red Flags Rule against attorneys

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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USA
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December 7 2009

Judge Reggie B. Walton of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia recently granted an injunction sought by the American Bar Association (“ABA”) that prohibits the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) from enforcing the Red Flags Rule against attorneys

FTC announces three-month suspension of Red Flags Rule; new guidance to be released shortly

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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USA
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July 30 2009

On Wednesday, July 29, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it would be suspending enforcement of the Red Flags Rule, its new anti-fraud regulations, for three months, until November 1, 2009

FTC extends effective date of Red Flags Rule to December 31, 2010

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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USA
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May 28 2010

On May 28, 2010, the last business day before the June 1, 2010 effective date for the Red Flags Rule, the Federal Trade Commission issued a press release announcing another extension of the enforcement date

Virginia new medical information data breach law

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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USA
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April 14 2010

The Commonwealth of Virginia recently enacted a law requiring notice of data breaches involving medical information

Mississippi new data breach notification law

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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USA
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April 14 2010

Mississippi is the latest state to adopt a data breach notification statute under House Bill 583