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Compliance with new FTC Red Flag Regulations for non-financial services clients

  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 16 2009

The increased prevalence and severity of identity theft in recent years has prompted several federal agencies, pursuant to Section 114 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003, to issue regulations designed to identify “patterns, practices, and specific forms of activity that indicate the possible existence of identity theft” (the “Red Flag Regulations” or the “Regulations”

Why your company needs to develop a record-retention policy now

  • Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell Ltd
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 26 2008

The proliferation of electronic data is astounding

Massachusetts extends deadline for compliance with data security regulations

  • Dentons
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 22 2009

The Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs & Business Regulation (OCABR) announced today that it would extend the January 1, 2009 compliance date for its data security regulations (201 CMR 17.00) citing the need to provide flexibility to businesses that may be experiencing financial challenges brought on by national and international economic conditions

Satyam: next steps for sourcing customers

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
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  • India, USA
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  • January 16 2009

Last week we alerted clients to the need for a rapid assessment of their exposure to Satyam in the wake of the much-publicized acknowledgement of fraud and mis-reporting of financial results by the company's founder and former Chairman

Federal Trade Commission takes first action under US-EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework

  • Baker & McKenzie
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  • USA
  • -
  • September 28 2009

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken its first enforcement action pursuant to the US-EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework (Safe Harbor

Massachusetts revises information security regulations and extends compliance deadline

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 17 2009

On February 12, 2009, the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation issued a revised version of its information security regulations and extended the compliance deadline from May 1, 2009 to January 1, 2010

Southern Nuclear Operating Co, Inc v Electronic Data Systems Corp

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 15 2008

Georgia’s Trade Secrets Act prohibits knowing misappropriation of trade secrets

Federal court decides that data breach case against supermarket chain can proceed, but only as to one plaintiff

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 15 2009

Earlier this week, the United States District Court for the District of Maine issued its ruling on a motion to dismiss a class action complaint against a supermarket chain based on a massive data breach

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court holds sale terms mandating individualized arbitration of claims violate public policy of unfair and deceptive practices statute favoring classwide resolution of small-value consumer claims

  • Foley Hoag LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 31 2009

In Feeney v. Dell, Inc., 454 Mass. 192 (2009), plaintiffs filed a putative class action claiming defendant computer manufacturer had violated Mass. Gen. L. ch. 93A, the Massachusetts unfair and deceptive practices statute, by collecting sales tax on plaintiffs’ purchase of service contracts when no such tax was actually due

Technology company employee pleads guilty to stealing trade secrets to sell to foreign governments

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • March 17 2008

On February 29, 2008, Allen Cotten pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Sacramento to stealing microwave technologies from his former employer, Genesis Microwave, Inc., and selling or offering them for sale to foreign governments and military contractors