January 28-29, Park Hyatt Washington, Washington, DC
We are pleased to announce that Troutman Sanders Partners Ronald Raether and Ashley Taylor, Jr. will be featured speakers at this upcoming industry-leading conference.
Mr. Raether will be a speaker on a panel titled “Cyber Security Preparedness: Data Breach Incident Response Teams and Refurbishing Your Governance Programs.” The
On November 24, 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a Compliance Bulletin (2015-06), warning companies that they must ensure that consumer authorization is obtained before automatically debiting a consumer’s account and that required notifications to consumers must clearly describe the terms of the preauthorized electronic funds transfers (EFTs).
Importantly, for the first
On November 13, 2015, an administrative law judge dismissed the Federal Trade Commission’s action against LabMD, ruling the FTC failed to show that the laboratory’s alleged conduct caused or would cause harm to consumers. The decision represents a significant blow to the FTC and its ability to bring actions under the unfairness prong of Article
We are pleased to announce that Troutman Sanders partner Ashley L. Taylor, Jr. will be a featured speaker on a panel entitled “State Attorneys General: Emerging Leaders in Consumer-Related Issues” at the Corporate Counsel Institute on Friday, December 11 in Atlanta.
On November 4, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 47 State Attorneys General, and other state and local law enforcement authorities from around the country announced the first coordinated federal-state enforcement initiative targeting deceptive and abusive debt collection practices. The initiative, named Operation Collection Protection, aims to crackdown on collectors who use illegal tactics
On October 27, the United States Senate passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (“CISA”) by a vote of 74-21. CISA claims to improve cybersecurity by encouraging the sharing of threat information among companies and the U.S. Government.
As previously reported here, CISA would permit private entities to share cyber threat
In July 2015, several companies that were the targets of non-public Consumer Financial Protection Bureau investigations sued the Bureau after it refused to allow their current counsel to attend the Bureau’s investigative testimony of one of the companies’ former attorneys. The companies wanted one of their current attorneys to attend the testimony and assert the
On Monday, the European Union said it had reached an agreement in principle with the United States on a revised safe harbor program for trans-Atlantic data flow, following the recent Schrems decision before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Although the specifics remain to be worked out, organizations should brace themselves for likely
On October 22, the United States Senate moved one step closer to passing the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) by taking the act under consideration for the full Senate. The CISA claims to improve cybersecurity by encouraging the sharing of threat information among companies and the U.S. government.
Specifically, the CISA would permit private entities
On September 17, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear an appeal it decided against Neiman Marcus over a payment card data breach, leaving in place the precedential ruling that held plaintiffs can sue for the trouble and expense of preventing fraud on their accounts.
The decision stems from a class action suit