Social Media Risk, Mitigation Guidance Issued for Financial Services Industry

Financial sector companies must pay attention to a wide variety of legal compliance and risk issues related to the use of social networking, BITS, the technology policy division of The Financial Services Roundtable, cautioned in its “Social Media Risks and Mitigation”guidance issued July 11…

BNA INSIGHTS: Quon Case, Technology, and the Legal System: Supreme Court Passes on Sweeping Statement but Raises Key Policy Points

On June 17, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Ontario v. Quon, 560 U.S. ____, 130 S. Ct. 2619 (2010) (9 PVLR 893, 6/21/10),one of the most closely watched employment cases in years. In unanimously holding that a city’s review of an…

Rite Aid to Pay HHS $1 Million to End HIPAA Privacy Probe; Also Settles FTC Act Violations

National drug store chain Rite Aid agreed to pay $1 million to the federal government to settle allegations it violated the Health Insurance…

Supreme Court Rules City’s Search of Police Officer’s Text Messages Not Privacy Breach

A California city did not violate a police officer’s Fourth Amendment privacy rights by reviewing personal text messages he…

Boucher Draft to Regulate Business Use of Consumer Data Would Require Key Changes to Existing Privacy Policies, Attorneys Say

The vast majority of privacy policies that U.S. companies have posted on their websites would not pass muster under a draft legislative proposal that is being circulated by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), privacy attorneys told BNA…

Privacy Groups Urge Supreme Court to Tread Cautiously in Quon Work Texting Case

The U.S. Supreme Court should exercise caution in reviewing whether a police officer had a reasonable expectation of privacy in personal text messages sent from and received by his employer-issued pager, because the court’s ruling may reverberate beyond the public sector workplace, privacy groups argued in a friend of the court brief filed March 23.

ID Theft Prevention Firm LifeLock Agrees to Corrective Measures, $12 Million Fine with FTC

In order to end Federal Trade Commission enforcement action, identity theft prevention firm LifeLock Inc. agreed to take more stringent measures to safeguard…