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UK ICO report highlights uncertainty on cost of data protection reform

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • May 14 2013

On May 13, 2013, London Economics published the results of an independent survey commissioned by the UK Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") to

FTC releases report on facial recognition technology

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 26 2012

On October 22, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission released a report entitled “Facing Facts: Best Practices for Common Uses of Facial Recognition Technologies.”

Equifax and its customers to pay $1.6 million to settle FTC FCRA enforcement action

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 16 2012

On October 10, 2012, the Federal Trade Commission announced that consumer reporting agency Equifax Information Services LLC (“Equifax”) and several of its customers, including Direct Lending Source, Inc. (“Direct Lending”), have agreed to pay a combined total of nearly $1.6 million to settle FTC allegations that they violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (“FCRA”) in connection with the sale of data regarding consumers in financial distress

FTC seeks public comments on facial recognition technology

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 1 2012

On December 23, 2011, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is seeking public comments on the privacy and security implications raised by the use of facial recognition technology

SEC issues disclosure guidance on cybersecurity matters and cyber incidents

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 20 2011

On October 13, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance issued disclosure guidance (“Guidance”) regarding cybersecurity matters and cyber incidents

New Jersey courts issue conflicting rulings in ZIP code collection cases

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 18 2011

Last month, two New Jersey judges issued opposing decisions in class action lawsuits regarding merchants’ point-of-sale ZIP code collection practices

German state DPA orders businesses to close Facebook pages

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • August 25 2011

On August 19, 2011, the Data Protection Commissioner’s Office of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein (“ULD”) ordered all businesses in that state “to shut down their fan pages on Facebook and remove social plug-ins such as the ‘like’-button from their websites.”

UK Information Commissioner warns businesses to "wake up" to the new EU law on cookies

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 11 2011

On March 8, 2011, the UK Information Commissioner's Office (the "ICO") issued a warning to UK businesses on the forthcoming amendments to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (200258EC as amended by 2009136EC) that will require businesses operating websites in the UK to obtain consent from website visitors to store information on their computers and retrieve that information in the form of cookies

California Supreme Court finds that zip codes are personal identification information under Song-Beverly Act

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 14 2011

On February 10, 2011, the California Supreme Court ruled in Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma Stores, Inc. that ZIP codes are “personal identification information” under the state’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act of 1971 (the “Credit Card Act”

President Obama signs Red Flag Program Clarification Act

  • Hunton & Williams LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 20 2010

On December 18, 2010, President Obama signed into law the "Red Flag Program Clarification Act of 2010" (S