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Cyber Theft of U.S. Firms’ Trade Secrets Poses Growing Threat, Report Says

The cyber theft of U.S. companies’ trade secrets by foreign actors has become a “significant and growing” threat to the nation’s prosperity and security, the Obama administration said in an intelligence report released Nov. 3…

BNA INSIGHTS: The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Guidance On Cybersecurity and Cyber Incident Disclosure

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on occasion provides disclosure guidance on topics of interest to the business and investment communities. The SEC said recently that it has observed “an increased level of attention focused on cyberattacks.”…

California Becomes Seventh State With Law Limiting Credit Report Use In Employment

Just before a midnight deadline, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) Oct. 9 signed a bill (A.B. 22) that limits employer use of credit reports to evaluate employees or applicants, making California the seventh state with such a law on the books…

Obama Executive Order Revamps Federal Classified Data Security

An executive order that was issued by President Obama to create new mechanisms for safeguarding sensitive and classified information on federal computer networks, but that only mentions privacy issues in passing, was published Oct. 13…

BNA INSIGHTS: Under Proposed Rule, Laboratories Would be Required to Release Test Results to Patients; Implementation Would Require Significant New Policies and Procedures

In many states, laboratories are prohibited from releasing test results to patients (or at least are prohibited from doing so without the consent of the physician who ordered the test). That may be set to change.

BNA INSIGHTS: The Federal Trade Commission’s Proposed Amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule and General Audience Websites

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Sept. 15 issued its long-awaited proposed amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (Rule) in the wake of tremendous technological change, including growth in the use of mobile devices and online social networking…

In First NLRB Social Media Ruling, ALJ Holds Facebook Posting Firings Violated Labor Act

An upstate New York nonprofit violated federal labor law when it fired five employees for griping on Facebook about a co-worker, a National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge decided in an opinion released Sept. 6…

BNA INSIGHTS: Texas Amendments Purport to Apply Breach Notification Law to Cover 50 States, And to Expand Health Care Privacy Law’s Requirements and Scope of Applicability

In a bill quietly passed by the Texas Legislature at the end of May, the state made quite a change for businesses countrywide…

BNA INSIGHTS: Contracting for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Compliance in the Cloud

As merchants move to reap the functional and operational benefits of virtualized environments, compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is becoming increasingly complicated, yet all the more essential to the protection of cardholder data…

BNA INSIGHTS: Employment/Labor Law Meets Social Media: Advice for Employers

Only a few years ago, employers reacted quickly (and perhaps hastily) to the development of social media and their employees’ use of social media…

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