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Protecting privacy or enabling fraud? Employee social media password protection laws may clash with FINRA rules

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 8 2013

As a growing number of states pass legislation which will protect individuals' social media accounts from employer scrutiny, they have encountered a

General counsel update

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • China, European Union, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, United Kingdom, USA
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  • July 11 2012

This is the thirtieth in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

MoFo Tech: SpringSummer 2013

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 22 2013

Behind every trend are new complications. And, often, laws trying to flatten the wrinkles the trends have wrought. Look at social media, for example

SEC staff recommends review of record-retention policies to reflect social media content and communications made by registered investment advisors

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 27 2012

The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE) recently published an advisory alert regarding investment advisors’ use of social media and recommended that firms using social media adopt and periodically review the effectiveness of recordkeeping policies and procedures regarding social media in the face of changing technology

Noteworthy cases in the United States Supreme Court’s 2011 term

  • Larkin Hoffman
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 21 2011

The first Monday in October represents the start of a new term for the United States Supreme Court

The social media landmines for financial services: 10 legal issues every bank should consider

  • Frost Brown Todd LLC
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 1 2011

Before jumping head first into social media, financial institutions would be well-advised to consider adopting a social media policy that both achieves its goals and protects it from legal risks

CFPB gives notice regarding social media records

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
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  • USA
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  • August 1 2011

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, anticipates that users of social media will interact with the CFPB through services such as Facebok, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr

FINRA issues guidance for the evolving high tech world: applying the existing rules to the new social media

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 23 2011

Individuals and broker-dealers involved in the financial services industry have become accustomed to using social media and personal technology devices to assist in their business

SEC focuses on investment advisers' use of social media

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 9 2012

On January 4, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission released a National Examination Risk Alert addressing investment adviser use of social media

Financial services legislative and regulatory update - May 21 2012

  • Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC
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  • China, USA
  • -
  • May 21 2012

The news last week was clearly dominated by JP Morgans trading loss