What this service is:
Bloomberg 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, Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), HITECH Act, PATRIOT Act, Gramm-Lech-Bliley, CAN-SPAM and the European Union Data Directive, 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 Bloomberg 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 Bloomberg 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 issues available weekly. Print current reports are indexed every six months, cumulating annually. Web current reports are archived to 1/07/2001 available only with the Privacy & Data Security Resource Center. 

 

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 Bloomberg 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 Bloomberg BNA Interviews

• United Kingdom Information Commissioner Richard Thomas
• European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx
• Lydia B. Parnes, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, FTC

 

 

• Adware
• Authentication
• Background checks
• Biometrics
• Consumer privacy
• Corporate security
• Cybercrime
• Data breach notification
• Data retention
• E-health
• E-mail
• Employee privacy/security
• Encryption
• Enforcement
• EU and global data protection laws
• Financial privacy/security
• Genetic information
• Health privacy/security
• Homeland security
• Identity theft
• Marketing
• Outsourcing
• Privacy notices and policies
• RFID
• Spam
• Spyware
• Tax privacy/security
• Telemarketing
• Trade secrets

• FTC Act
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
• Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act
• Fair Credit Reporting Act
• Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act
• USA PATRIOT Act
• CAN-SPAM Act
• Privacy Act of 1974
• Computer Fraud & Abuse Act
• Electronic Communications Privacy Act
• Federal Information Security Management Act
• Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
• Freedom of Information Act
• Telephone Consumer Protection Act
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Right to Financial Privacy Act
• Bank Secrecy Act
• Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
• Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
• Driver's Privacy Protection Act
• Telemarketing Sales Rule
• Stored Communications Act
• Wiretap Act