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Just as companies may be catching their breath after sprinting
to get ready for GDPR in time for its recent implementation date,
the FTC has now entered the enforcement fray. It has stated that, where companies are choosing
to apply GDPR protections to American consumers, the FTC may
enforce any failures to abide by those commitments. What does this
mean for US companies? As many implemented compliance with GDPR, a
number of companies stated publicly that they would be providing
some -or all- of the same protections to their other customers. It
made sense for the companies – once they were reconfiguring
their policies and systems to meet the GDPR requirements for
European customers, why not offer the same protections to
individuals outside the EU? It was comparatively easy to do and it
was good consumer PR. But now the FTC plans to hold them to it.
Putting it Into Practice: Making sure companies keep
their promises is central to the FTC's mission. This is no
different. Think carefully about what you commit to when describing
your privacy practices to consumers. Once you make a commitment,
make sure you keep it, or the FTC could come calling.
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about your specific circumstances.
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Sheppard Mullin partner Townsend Bourne will present “Cybersecurity Compliance Frameworks for Government Contracting” at the National Contract Management Association’s Government Contract Management Symposium at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia.
The annual seminar addressing changes and developments in state and federal wage and hour laws is a unique one-day program and hundreds of California employers, personnel managers, controllers, attorneys, payroll managers, and supervisors attend each year.
This year registrants will receive a free copy of the New 2019 Edition of the WAGE AND HOUR MANUAL FOR CALIFORNIA EMPLOYERS by Attorney Simmons (over 1020 pages). The book is the only one of its kind and is widely recognized as the leading text in its field.
The seminar is designed to provide a guide to Human Resource Officials, Personnel Specialists, Consultants, Supervisors and other management officials through the ever-increasing maze of state and federal employment discrimination laws.
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the FEHC have both recognized the value of this manual and obtained copies for investigators, consultants and supervisors throughout California.
The Situation: The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") has raised questions regarding the scope of coverage and protection afforded by current cyber policies,
For your ease of reference, we reproduce here a formatted, hyperlinked copy of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), current as of October 15, 2018.
In a new class action filed recently against a hospital housekeeping company, employees allege their employer's fingerprint scanning time-tracking system runs afoul of privacy laws.
As we previously reported here, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced several enforcement actions in late 2017, on the eve of the first annual joint EU-U.S.
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