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Privacy Service Areas

  • CAN-SPAM Act compliance
  • Children's privacy / COPPA Compliance
  • Consumer credit issues (FCRA)
  • Corporate investigations conduct
  • Credit card compliance (PCI and DSS)
  • Data breach investigation and remediation
  • Data privacy class-action defense
  • Data security encryption requirements
  • Disposal of personal information
  • Document retention and security
  • Employee privacy
  • EU Data privacy and data transfers to and from the EU
  • FACTA "red flag" and identity theft policies
  • Gramm-Leach-Bliley and financial institution data issues
  • HIPAA and health privacy
  • Identity theft prevention and assistance
  • Internet privacy policies
  • Invasion of privacy litigation and avoidance training
  • IP rights and patents for privacy technologies
  • IT and Outsourcing contract review
  • Privacy Act and government use of social security numbers
  • Privacy audits
  • Retail and consumer data privacy
  • Stored Communications Act
  • Telemarketing and Do Not Call lists
  • Telephone record protections
  • Video Privacy Protection Act
  • Wire-tapping liability

Related Publications

02/17/12 Data Privacy Update
Massachusetts regulations to protect consumer personal information contain March 1, 2012 deadline.
02/01/12 Overhaul of European Data Protection Law Announced
European Commission proposal for a new General Data Protection Regulation aims to strengthen and harmonise data protection law across Europe.
11/18/11 HIPAA Privacy and Security Audit Program Begins This Month
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02/17/12 Data Privacy Update

LawFlash/Client Alert | Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy LawFlash
Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy Practice

Massachusetts regulations to protect consumer personal information contain March 1, 2012 deadline.

02/01/12 Overhaul of European Data Protection Law Announced

LawFlash/Client Alert | Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy LawFlash
Celia Kendrick, François Vergne, Matthew Howse, Walter Ahrens

European Commission proposal for a new General Data Protection Regulation aims to strengthen and harmonise data protection law across Europe.

11/18/11 HIPAA Privacy and Security Audit Program Begins This Month

LawFlash/Client Alert | Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy LawFlash
Lauren Licastro, W. Reece Hirsch, Andy Anderson

HIPAA-covered entities, including employer health plan sponsors, should watch the mail for a letter from the Office for Civil Rights (OCR). The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act requ... more

11/16/11 Recent SEC Guidance and Upcoming Amendments to California and Illinois Statutes Affect Data Breach Disclosure Obligations

LawFlash/Client Alert | Advertising, Consumer Protection, and Privacy LawFlash
Ron Dreben, Kenneth Kliebard, K. Roney, Gregory Parks, W. Reece Hirsch

Recognizing that business entities now conduct a majority of their operations with the assistance of electronic programs and databases, and that a significant amount of business and personal information may be stored electronica... more

10/07/10 FTC Releases Proposed "Green Guides" Revisions

LawFlash/Client Alert | Cross-Practice Alert
Stephen Mahinka, Karen Butcher

After almost three years of review and analysis, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on October 6 released proposed revisions to its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims, generally termed the "Green Guides" (the G... more

06/18/10 U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Quon: Employee Text Messages Not Shielded from Employer Review

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
eData Practice

In a much-anticipated opinion in the Quon [1] matter, on June 17 the U.S. Supreme Court declined to set precedent on broad issues of employee privacy expectations in workplace communicatio... more

08/27/09 Massachusetts Regulations Governing Protection of Consumer Information to Take Effect March 1, 2010

LawFlash/Client Alert | Intellectual Property LawFlash
Intellectual Property Practice

Massachusetts has joined the growing list of states that are requiring businesses to encrypt and secure personal data. On March 1, 2010, new regulations will take effect that apply to all "persons who own, license, store or mai... more

03/03/09 Expansion of Health IT under Stimulus Legislation May Prompt Increased FDA Regulatory Activity

LawFlash/Client Alert | FDA and Healthcare LawFlash
FDA and Healthcare Practice

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the stimulus bill) brings new focus and billions in funding for the development and use of health information technology (HIT), including the use of electronic health records ... more

09/09/08 Department of Homeland Security Policy on Laptop Searches at the Border: An Analysis

LawFlash/Client Alert | Immigration Alert
Immigration Practice

On July 16, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), published policy guidance with respect to its authority to conduct border searches of information contained in doc... more

06/26/08 Ninth Circuit Ruling: Employee Text Messages Shielded from Employer Review

LawFlash/Client Alert | eData LawFlash
eData Practice

On June 18, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co. , No. 07-55282 (9th Cir.), that employee text messages are subject to the Stored Communications Act of 1986, and that employees... more

03/11/08 SEC Proposes Amendments to Regulation S-P

LawFlash/Client Alert | Investment Management FYI
Magda El Guindi-Rosenbaum, Monica Parry

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed amendments to Regulation S-P, which sets forth privacy obligations for entities it regulates. To help prevent and address security breaches and better protect investor i... more

09/24/07 Minimize Risk with Global Outsourcing and Data Transfers, presented at the Global Data Security and Privacy Summit, Washington, D.C.

Presentation | Speech
Barbara Melby

Spring 2007 Defending Data Privacy Class Actions, ABA's Class Actions & Derivatives Suits, Vol. 17, No. 2

Outside Publication | Article
Gregory Parks

03/23/07 Interagency Proposal for Model Privacy Form Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

LawFlash/Client Alert | Securities Industry FYI
Securities Industry

On March 20, 2007, eight federal regulators (the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Trade Commission, the National C... more

11/15/06 Hot Topics in Consumer Class Actions for Retail Companies (Data Privacy Class Actions): (View Recording)

Presentation | Webinar
Joseph Fay, J. Cooney, Jr., Gregory Parks

07/25/06 New York's “Disposal of Personal Records Law” Becomes Effective on December 6, 2006: Protection of Personal Information Moves to the Front of Legislative Agendas

LawFlash/Client Alert | Resources in Real Time
Morgan Lewis Resources

The rapid development of e-commerce in the past 15 years has resulted in new opportunities for criminals. Fraudulent access to a person’s bank or credit card account can be obtained with little more than a name, address, ... more

06/26/06 Protecting European Employee Privacy Rights During U.S. Litigation Discovery

Presentation | Webinar
Kenneth Turnbull, Mark Dichter, François Vergne, Walter Ahrens

In this webinar, the European Partners of Morgan Lewis's International Employment Practice explored the impact of EU data privacy principles on U.S. litigation discovery. Topics in this presentation included: Responding to ... more

03/14/06 HIPAA Triple Play: Privacy, Security and Enforcement

LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits

2006 marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of HIPAA, and this spring brings a HIPAA privacy reminder, the application of HIPAA security rules to small plans and the finalization of HIPAA enforcement rules for HIPAA violation... more

03/13/06 Managing European Employees: Extending Codes of Conduct and Respecting Employee Privacy Rights

Presentation | Webinar
Kenneth Turnbull, Mark Dichter, François Vergne, Walter Ahrens

11/29/05 E-Discovery in Employment Litigation: Effective Strategies for Managing the Unique Information and Privacy Challenges, presented at the Strafford Publishing Teleconference

Presentation | Speech
Stephanie Blair

09/29/04 Health Plans and Employers Who Sponsor Them Face Additional HIPAA Requirements

LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits

By now, you are probably familiar with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule and the many requirements it imposes on group health plans (and the employers that sponsor them), health care pr... more

May/June 2004 Morgan Lewis on Intellectual Property and Technology
May/June 2004

Newsletter | Morgan Lewis on Intellectual Property and Technology
Intellectual Property and Technology

In this Issue: Door Still Open on Trademark Keywords: The practice of selling a third party’s trademark to generate an advertisement for another company continues to be controversial and in the news. Although ... more

05/13/04 Privacy in the Workplace, presented at a Lorman Educational Seminar

Presentation | Speech
L. Julius Turman

2004 Work as a Place of Privacy, SF LGBT Center Employment Update

Outside Publication | Article
L. Julius Turman

03/07/03 Final Security Regulations Published Under HIPAA

LawFlash/Client Alert | Labor and Employment LawFlash
Labor and Employment

With less than two months before the April 14, 2003 deadline for compliance with the HIPAA Privacy Regulations, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services published the final HIPAA Security Regulations on February 20, 20... more

2003 Competing Interests in the Post 9-11 Workplace: The New Line Between Privacy and Safety, William Mitchell Law Review, Vol. 29, Part 3

Outside Publication | Article
Elliot Steelman

09/19/02 Dealing with Privacy Laws and Guidelines within HR: E-mail and Privacy Issues, presented to the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce

Presentation | Speech
Anne Estevez

June 2002 Morgan Lewis on Competition

Newsletter | Morgan Lewis on Competition
Antitrust

In this Issue: Motions to Dismiss Patent Misuse and Antitrust Counterclaims Prove Effective In Patent Litigation: Two recent court decisions obtained by Morgan Lewis lawyers may signal a promising shift in favor of ... more

August 2001 Final Federal Regulations Governing the Confidentiality and Privacy of Health Information

Morgan Lewis Title | White Paper
Tax

More than a year after the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued proposed regulations, mandated by Congress under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”)... more

June 2001 Privacy Rights in a High-Tech World: Monitoring Employee E-Mail, Voicemail and Internet Use

Morgan Lewis Title | White Paper
Thomas Linthorst

The technological innovations developed over the past several years have revolutionized the workplace. E-mail, voicemail, and Internet access have become an integral part of an employee’s workstation and have dramatically... more

04/01/01 Final HIPAA Privacy Regulation

LawFlash/Client Alert | Employee Benefits LawFlash
Employee Benefits

On April 12, 2001, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced President Bush’s decision to immediately begin the process of implementing the Health Information Portability and Acco... more

10/04/00 Privacy After Gramm-Leach-Bliley, presented at the CSUGA International Conference, San Antonio

Presentation | Speech
Kathleen Collins

09/01/00 Sharing of Bank Customer Information with Insurance Agencies, presented at the Financial Privacy Conference, New York

Presentation | Speech
Kathleen Collins

06/24/00 Privacy Policies and Procedures for the Traditional "Financial Institution", presented at the Financial Services Industry Privacy Compliance Conference, Washington, D.C.

Presentation | Speech
Kathleen Collins

11/16/99 Privacy Rights in a High Tech World, presented at an Employment Law Seminar, Philadelphia

Presentation | Speech
Judith Harris, Dennis Morikawa

June 1999 The European Community Data Protection Directive

Morgan Lewis Title | White Paper
Business and Finance

On October 25, 1998, the European Community (the “EC”) adopted a Directive (the “Directive”) “on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement... more

06/01/98 How to Keep Track of Your Employees Without Violating Their Privacy Rights, presented at the Labor and Employment Law Seminar for Healthcare Providers, Harrisburg

Presentation | Speech
Dennis Morikawa

11/21/97 Privacy Rights in the Public Sector, presented at the Council on Education in Management Personnel Law Update, Washington, D.C.

Presentation | Speech
James Kelley, II

11/20/97 How to Keep Track of Your Employees Without Violating Their Privacy Rights, presented at the Labor and Employment Law Seminar, Philadelphia

Presentation | Speech
Dennis Morikawa

10/24/97 Today's Challenging Problems in Employment Litigation: Rightsizing and Reductions-In-Force "Employment" of Independent Contractors Privacy Issues in the Electronic Age, presented at The 44th Annual Institute on Labor and Employment Law - The Southwestern Legal Foundation, Dallas

Presentation | Speech
Mark Dichter

August 1997 Confidentiality and ADR: Protecting the Privacy of the Proceedings, The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel

Outside Publication | Article
Marc Sonnenfeld

02/06/97 E-Mail in the Workplace: An Employer's Guide to Privacy Law, presented at The Price Waterhouse LLP General Counsel Forum, Washington, D.C.

Presentation | Speech
Thomas Linthorst

11/18/96 Confidentiality and ADR: Protecting the Privacy of the Proceedings, The Legal Intelligencer

Outside Publication | Article
Marc Sonnenfeld

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