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Privacy & Security Law Report^®

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What this service is:

BNA's Privacy & Security Law Report provides comprehensive weekly coverage of the latest breaking legal, regulatory, legislative, and judicial news in the privacy and security fields. Learn about developments affecting data protection, employee privacy, data breaches, marketing, identity theft, data retention, corporate security, financial privacy, health care privacy, consumer privacy, e-discovery, and more.

What it helps you do:

Stay on top of federal enforcement actions and guidance from the Federal Trade Commission, banking agencies, Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Communication Commission, and Health and Human Services; guidance from industry groups on topics such as the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards; and updates on actions of state attorneys general.

Track EU data protection, binding corporate rules, model contracts, Article 29 Working Group updates, EU data protection authority enforcement actions, and related international data directive news.

Stay up-to-date on the latest APEC privacy developments, as well as coverage of data protection law in the Asia-Pacific region, including extensive coverage of Canada, Australia, and Japan.

Follow privacy and data protection law in Latin America, and keep up with privacy law developments in countries such as China, the Philippines, Turkey, Russia, and Dubai.

Learn of developments relevant to drafting privacy policies, responding to requests for information, and protecting data.

Keep up with federal privacy law, including HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley, CAN-SPAM Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, USA PATRIOT Act, Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, EU Data Directive, and dozens of other privacy/security-related laws and regulations, plus hot topics and emerging issues.

Read in-depth analysis from experts in numerous articles on privacy and data and information security, written by some of the nation's top attorneys.

Follow recent privacy/security-related court rulings, including updates on key litigation and settlements.

Review the latest legislation pending in Congress and the nation's state houses, especially in the bellwether state of California.

Rely on BNA to track the progress of new privacy/security-related bills in Congress, provide updates of proposed and final agency rules, and news of the latest regulatory enforcement actions.

Depend upon BNA's legal editor/reporters to cover major conferences and teleconferences you might otherwise miss.

Product Structure

Notification: current reports providing news and developments

Formats and Frequency

Print and Web notification formats are issued and available weekly. Print current reports are indexed every six months, cumulating annually. Web current reports are archived to 1/07/2001. E-mail summaries, providing the highlights and table of contents for each report, with URLs to full text articles and documents are also available.

Recent Articles by Outside Authors

What a Difference a Few Months Make: A Changing Landscape for EU Data Protection Enforcement, By Bridget Treacy, Hunton & Williams LLP

Update on the Safe Harbor Framework for Transferring Personal Data from the European Union to the United States, By Damon C. Greer, U.S. Department of Commerce

Online Behavioral Advertising: The FTC Offers Some Guidance, but Leaves Open Questions, By Andrew B. Serwin, Foley & Lardner LLP

A How-To Guide to Information Security Breaches, By Lisa J. Sotto and Aaron P. Simpson, Hunton & Williams LLP

Disloyal Employees and the Misappropriation of Trade Secrets and Private Information, By M. Todd Sullivan and John E. Pueschel, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

A Path to Resolving European Data Protection Concerns With U.S. Discovery, By Stanley W. Crosley, Alan Charles Raul, Edward R. McNicholas and Julie M. Dwyer, Sidley Austin LLP

Auditing Call Centers for Privacy, By Sagi Leizerov, Ernst & Young

New California Privacy Law May Reflect Future Trends In Security Breach Notification and Privacy Regulation, By Reece Hirsch, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

Do Privacy Rights Extend to International Travelers? Warrantless Border Searches of Electronic Devices, By Ronald Lee, Robert Litt, and Stephen Marsh, Arnold & Porter LLP

The Vanishing Fourth Amendment, By Fred H. Cate, Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, Indiana University

The Golden Rule of Privacy: A Proposal for a Global Privacy Policy on Government-to-Government Sharing of Personal Information, By John W. Kropf, Department of Homeland Security's Privacy Office

Addressing The Legal Challenges of Federated Identity Management, By Thomas J. Smedinghoff and David A. Wheeler, Wildman Harrold

FACT Act Regulations Govern Affiliate Marketing and Identity Theft, By Mark E. Plotkin and Michael Epshteyn, Covington & Burling LLP

Re-Thinking Privacy: 10 Reasons Why Your Business Should Be More Concerned About Workplace Privacy, By Philip L. Gordon, Littler Mendelson, P.C.

Financial Institutions Under Scrutiny for EU Data Security Breaches--Lessons to Be Learned, By Ieuan Jolly, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner

Life in the Fast Lane: Government Enforcement and the Risks of Privacy Noncompliance, By Ruth Hill Bro, Baker & McKenzie LLP

Enforcing Non-Competition Agreements in the Global Economy: United States and European Union Law Compared and Contrasted, By Ann Bevitt and Daniel P. Westman, Morrison & Foerster

Job Applicant Screening Overseas: Clearing the International Compliance Hurdles, By Donald C. Dowling Jr., White & Case LLP

Controlling Information Security Risks with Outside Law Firms, By Jeffrey Ritter, Waters Edge Consulting

Has The European Data Protection Enforcement Framework Suddenly Changed?, By Bridget Treacy and Lisa Sotto, Hunton & Williams

APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules and Trustmarks: A Step Toward Integrated Electronic Commerce in the Asia-Pacific, By Yukiko Ko

Recent Special Reports by BNA Reporter/Editors

Employee Use of Public Wireless Networks May Jeopardize Data Security, Breach Laws

[Host of Bills Seeking Marketing Restrictions Under Consideration in '08 State Legislatures]

Variable Funding of EU Privacy Law Means Uneven Enforcement Across European Union

Wealth of Data at Colleges, Universities Triggers High Breach Rate; Agency Oversight?

Pitfalls Abound for Employers Lacking Electronic Information Retention Policies

Uptake of Binding Corporate Rules Varies Widely Across European Union

State Attorneys General Fill Important Gap in Data Security Enforcement, Experts Say

Recent BNA Interviews

United Kingdom Information Commissioner Richard Thomas

European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx

Lydia B. Parnes, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC