Privacy & Data Security

The accounts receivable industry was well represented at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ("CFPB") Debt Collection Town Hall Meeting last week. At the Bureau's request, Jan Stieger, Executive Director of Receivables Management Association International ("RMAI"), participated in a panel discussion where she…

Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") announced its long-awaited

California lawmakers hoping to scale back, expand, or at least clarify the scope of the state’s groundbreaking privacy law have seen their first real victories as Assembly and Senate committees approved eight of at least eighteen bills proposing amendments to the California…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it is seeking comment on proposed changes to rules promulgated under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB). GLB requires companies that offer consumer financial products or services, like loans, to explain their information sharing practices to…

The Washington State Senate passed

The State of Washington has officially joined the national conversation on data privacy regulation. On January 17, 2019, the Washington Senate proposed

Twelve state attorneys general recently joined forces to file the first-ever multistate data breach lawsuit. In 2015, Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard (collectively “MIE”), announced that its systems had been hacked and the information of about 3.9 million patients had…

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) recently introduced the

Over the past year, the realm of data privacy has drastically changed as consumers and regulators alike focus more intently on protecting the information individuals share with businesses. During the course of 2018 alone, large-scale data breaches such as those affecting Facebook,…