The Federal Trade Commission issued notices on March 5 seeking public comment on proposed amendments to the regulations implementing the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, commonly known as the Safeguards Rule and Privacy Rule. Once the notices are published in the Federal Register comments must be received within 60 days. The proposed changes to the Safeguards Rule add a number of more detailed security requirements, whereas the proposed changes to the Privacy Rule are more focused on technical changes to align the Rule with changes in law over the past decade.
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California Consumer Privacy Act: The Challenge Ahead – The Interplay Between the CCPA and Financial Institutions
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) exempts information that is collected, processed, sold, or disclosed pursuant to the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLBA”), and its implementing regulations (the “Privacy Rule”), or the California Financial Information Privacy Act (“CFIPA”). It does not exempt financial institutions altogether from its requirements where a financial information is processing information not subject to these regimes. In such situations, a financial institution must comply with a wide array of CCPA obligations, including requirements to make certain disclosures to consumers and to provide certain rights to consumers, such as the right to stop “sales” of their personal information and the right to access data that a business has collected about them. Determining whether information a financial institution processes is covered by the exemption or not can be challenging and is something that financial institutions will need to analyze for their operations.
This blog post provides background on the scope of the exemption and an overview of key considerations for financial institutions developing CCPA compliance programs.
CFPB Finalizes Rule to Ease GLBA Privacy Notice Requirements
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized a proposed rule that will eliminate the need for certain financial institutions to mail annual privacy notices to their customers, so long as the institutions publish their privacy notices online and engage only in limited sharing of customer information.
CFPB Proposes to Alleviate GLBA Privacy Notice Requirements
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued a proposed rule that would eliminate the requirement for banks and other financial institutions subject to CFPB jurisdiction to deliver an annual privacy notice to their customers, provided the institutions take certain privacy-protective measures. The CFPB proposal demonstrates that the agency is following up on its 2011 streamlining initiative, in which it solicited comment on possible alternatives to delivering the annual privacy notice, and recognizes at least to some extent the online world that most consumers now embrace
CFTC Issues GLBA Security Guidelines
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued guidance for CFTC-regulated financial institutions on compliance with the security safeguards provisions of Title V of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. In a Staff Advisory, the CFTC recommends that futures commission merchants, commodity trading advisors, commodity pool operators, introducing brokers, retail foreign exchange dealers, swap dealers, and major swap participants implement certain best practices to meet their obligations under GLBA, as well as the CFTC’s GLBA regulations at 17 C.F.R. Part 160, to adopt policies and procedures that address administrative, technical and physical safeguards for the protection of customer records and information.
FTC Reaches Settlements Over P2P Data Breaches
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday announced settlements with two companies over security breaches caused by peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software. The settlements require the companies to establish and maintain comprehensive information security programs and to undergo data security audits by independent auditors every other year for 20 years.
CFTC Proposes Rules on Affiliate Marketing, Data Disposal, and GLBA Privacy
On October 27, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued proposed privacy and data security rules under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act.
Federal Regulators Release Customizable Version of Model Privacy Notice
April 15 marked the release of the long-awaited customizable version of the Model Privacy Notice, a form that provides a safe harbor for compliance with the notice requirements of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). Read more about in this entry.