An essential compliance tool for every privacy officer and attorney involved in managing privacy and data security issues, Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook provides the thorough, practical, sector-specific guidance that helps you meet today's challenges and minimize the risk of data breaches that can damage a company's reputation.
Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook enables you to comply with data privacy laws relating to:
- Marketing efforts - including standards governing online behavioral advertising and targeted marketing
- Privacy in the workplace - such as standards governing employee monitoring and background screening of employees and applicant
- Health information - focusing on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), with insight into the HITECH Act's impact on data breaches and other recent changes
- Financial privacy - including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act's regulations for the collection and disclosure of personal information in the banking and insurance industries
- Consumer reports - with detailed coverage of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
- Government surveillance - including the latest developments in warrantless wiretapping
- Social networking - including the FTC's current approach
Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook is written by Lisa J. Sotto - one of the world's foremost legal practitioners in the field. Ms. Sotto is partner and head of Hunton & Williams' Privacy and Information Management practice, which was ranked in "Band 1” for Privacy and Data Security by both the Chambers USA and Chambers Global guides. READ MORE!
Packed with sample documents, checklists, and other compliance-enabling tools, Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook allows you to:
- Navigate the various breach notification requirements in the more than 45 states that have such laws in place
- Comply with global data protection laws (including those in the EU), facilitating compliance with cross-border data transfer restrictions
- Keep current with emerging legal trends, from changes in federal and state laws to the latest data privacy regulations abroad
Privacy and Data Security Law Deskbook has been updated to include:
- Discussion on the transfer of rulemaking and enforcement authority from the financial regulatory agencies to the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Analysis of the SEC's Disclosure Guidance regarding cybersecurity risks and cyber incidents
- Analysis of proposed changes to the accounting of disclosure requirements in the HIPAA Privacy Rule
- Overview of OCR's new program to audit covered entities and business associates
- Updated information on the protection of social media communications by the National Labor Relations Board
- Updates on recent Federal Trade Commission enforcement actions related to Facebook and Google
- Recent memoranda issued by the National Labor Relations Board addressing workplace privacy complaints
- And much more!
For more information on privacy and data security law issues, read Hunton & Williams' Privacy and Information Security Law Blog!