The Financial Privacy Law Guide is the complete and comprehensive resource to keep you up-to-date with the rapidly expanding area of financial privacy. Since the passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, financial institutions have faced a greater challenge to comply with current state and federal privacy law guidelines. However, compliance with Gramm-Leach Bliley is just the beginning point for evolving financial privacy regulation, which includes areas such as data security breach notification. Because the area of financial privacy is regulated by an array of state and federal laws, the financial industry has a need for a product that brings everything together in one place¿and the Financial Privacy Law Guide is the answer to that need. Subscribe today to:
The abundance of financial privacy laws, the compliance burden on bank officials and others in the financial services industry, and avid public interest in the loss of personal privacy combine to make the Financial Privacy Law Guide a worthwhile acquisition for many law libraries. (Legal Information Alert, (Volume 21, Issue #2), Alert Publications, Inc. Chicago, IL www.alertpub.com)
Features and Benefits
Gain a better understanding of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act and other regulations that govern financial privacy - Gramm-Leach-Bliley requirements pertinent to consumer financial information
is the core of the Financial Privacy Law Guide. Also within the scope
of the Financial Privacy Law Guide are: federal and state fair credit reporting
and identity theft laws; state financial and insurance information privacy statutes; federal
privacy rules for health records; bank secrecy, the Freedom of Information
Act; the Right to Financial Privacy Act; telemarketing and spam rules; and international privacy.
Applicable regulations of the federal banking regulators, the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the National Credit Union Administration and other federal regulators are included. The expert, CCH-written commentary on these laws and regulations give you a broader view of the body of issues surrounding financial privacy.
Stay abreast of changing customer information security requirements ¿ The consumer privacy provisions in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLB Act), the health information requirements in HIPAA, the Children¿s Online Privacy Protection Act and the safe harbor provisions to comply with the EU Directive on Data Protection all impose a duty to provide reasonable security over customer information. FPLG presents the rules required under these Acts, including the GLB Act Safeguards Rule, HIPAA Security Rule and the Interagency Security Guidelines, that companies must comply with to guard customer data and implement security programs. State laws requiring customer notification when there has been a data security breach at a financial institution are also included. In addition, the information disposal rules, passed by the banking agencies and the FTC, require institutions to take appropriate measures to properly dispose of consumer information derived from consumer reports. FPLG helps institutions and their service providers comply with this duty to destroy customer information.
Find the state and federal regulations you need quickly with the Financial Privacy Law Guide - We've organized the Guide by state and federal jurisdictions for quick reference. Each division begins with a detailed table of contents and a CCH explanation of the topic, followed by the full text of laws, regulations and interpretative agency issuances. Amendments to laws and regulations are reflected in the topical divisions every month. Items of current interest (regulatory releases, agency letters and court decisions) can be found in Current Developments.Keep up-to-date with convenient Report Letters, which notify you of new developments as they occur - As a Financial Privacy Law Guide subscriber, you will receive a twice-monthly Report Letter, in addition to your monthly updates, that will present to you a brief overview of new actions of federal and state regulators as well as expert, CCH-written commentary on the new developments.
Table Of Contents
At the core of the Financial Privacy Law Guide are the:
Topics covered also include:
Separate State divisions include state laws and regulations applicable to the following privacy areas:
Also included are: