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…

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…

Consumer Reporting Agency to Pay FTC $1.8 Million Over Alleged Fair Credit Reporting Act Violations

A credit reporting agency agreed in a consent judgment approved by a federal court June 27, to pay $1.8 million to end the Federal Trade Commission’s Fair Credit Reporting Act enforcement action alleging it sold sensitive consumer credit information to marketers without a permissible purpose (United States v. Teletrack Inc., N.D. Ga., No. 1:11-CV-2060, stipulated judgment approved 6/27/11)…

BNA INSIGHTS: California Supreme Court Opens Potential Floodgate for Lawsuits Based on Retailers’ Collection of Zip Codes

At least eighteen lawsuits have been filed against retailers since the California Supreme Court’s recent decision in Pineda v. Williams-Sonoma Stores Inc., which held that a retailer who requests and records zip codes from customers paying by credit card violates California’s Song-Beverly Credit Card Act…

State Trend Continues, As Eight Consider Bills to Restrict Employer Use of Credit Reports

A state law trend to restrict the use of individual consumer credit report information for employment purposes emerged last year and has continued in 2011, as bills were introduced to…

EEOC Race Bias Class Suit Against Kaplan Latest Move in Limiting Use of Credit Checks

A recently filed nationwide class action by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claiming an employer’s practice of checking the credit histories of job applicants and employees is racially discriminatory, is the latest…

Bill to Ban Web Credit ‘Data Pass’ Clears House, Heads to President

The House Dec. 15 cleared a bill that would ban online firms from passing a purchaser’s credit card and other personal data to third parties that charge new “post-transaction” unauthorized purchases to the consumers…

California Governor Vetoes, for Third Time, Bill to Limit Employer Use of Credit Data

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—For the third time in three consecutive years, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Sept. 24 vetoed a bill (A.B. 482 ) that…

California Bill to Limit Employer Use of Credit Data Clears Assembly; Veto Possible

The California Assembly Aug. 31 approved a Senate-amended version of a bill (A.B.482) that would restrict the use of credit reports by employers conducting…

BNA INSIGHTS: Incipient Legislative Trend Toward ‘Credit Privacy’ Compels Restraint in the Use of Credit Checks for Employment Purposes

The collision of two tectonic trends is spawning a new form of employee privacy right with potentially significant implications for every business that…

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