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Litigants in the Japanese courts should be aware of a powerful U.S. law that permits them to obtain evidence in the United States for use in their Japanese proceedings. Section [...]

More than 19 months after the Retail Payment Activities Act (the ôRPAAö) received Royal Assent, draft regulations to the RPAA (the ôRegulationsö) were released for public comment on February 10, [...]

Summary The Personal Data Protection Law Numbered 6698 and the European General Data Protection Regulation include the concepts of data controller and data processor. In the article, the qualifications, responsibilities, [...]

Hey everybody! Welcome back to another for another edition of Texas Tax Roundup! Hope y'all had a happy Thanksgiving! We got some franchise tax apportionment, some sales and use tax [...]

Technical Note No. 33/2022, published by the Brazilian Data Protection Authority (ANPD), proposes a template for a Record of Personal Data Processing Activities (ROPA) for small processing agents, whether controllers [...]

The requirement to leverage on third party service providers for the dissemination of products and services has remained in constant demand for businesses. With the continuously increasing number of data-driven [...]

Our #Bitesize round-up covers key recent FinTech, payments, and Open Banking-related regulatory developments in Australia. FinTech and Payments February 2022 meeting of the Payments System Board On 17 February 2022, [...]

Texas HB 1445, which went into effect on January 1, 2022, exempts medical billing services performed before the submission of the relevant insurance claim from state sales tax. The new [...]

In the upcoming round of amendments to the PDPO, Hong Kong likely will follow the footsteps of overseas regulatory authorities to introduce measures that regulate data processors directly. This post [...]

In U.S. ex rel. Sonyika v. ApolloMD, Inc. et al., 2021 WL 1222379 (N.D. Ga. Mar. 31, 2021), a Georgia federal court allowed a relator's Amended Complaint alleging a fraudulent [...]

The Texas Legislature in April passed H.B. 1445, which adopted amendments to the Texas sales tax law regarding medical and dental billing. Governor Greg Abbott on April 30, 2021, signed [...]

Introduction In this digital age, data has become a vital asset for both individuals and corporate bodies. It has in fact been regarded as the world's most valuable resource1. The [...]

On October 19, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission issued its annual report to Congress regarding the FTC's efforts to protect senior citizens from fraud and abuse. In the report, the [...]

In 2019, Jersey's Royal Court (the Court) had to carefully consider the breadth of its discretion to grant relief under the Trusts (Jersey) Law 1984, as amended (the Law), which [...]

Introduction The Law on Personal Data Protection ('Law') numbered 6698, which has been issued as a part of the European Union compliance process, has been published in the Official Gazette [...]

Businesses often use third party entities to process customer information or transactions and to then relay portions of that information back to the business. Businesses using third parties in this [...]

On November 23, 2018, the U.K. Payment Systems Regulator launched a consultation on its proposals to onshore the Regulatory Technical Standards supplementing the EU Interchange Fee Regulation to ensure the [...]

Two years after the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) entered into force, Europe as of 25 May 2018 is faced with a new legal situation. It remains to be [...]

The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) adopted guidance on the role of the Data Protection Officer (DPO) under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) last April 2017. In Ireland, [...]

Read Part 1 on Why and how banks are running out of time to implement GDPR. Repapering Central to every bank's compliance efforts will be the updating of contracts with [...]

Rob Corbet, Partner at Arthur Cox, clears up some common misconceptions surrounding the GDPR's requirement on appointment of Data Protection Officers The countdown to GPDR commencement on 25th May 2018 [...]

In this, the latest in our series of GDPR related vlogs, we're going to look at the new rules applicable to contracts between controllers and processors under the GDPR. self [...]

On August 25, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia struck four counts of a complaint filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it failed [...]

The EU's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) will apply in the UK from 25 May next year. The headline changes include: Direct compliance liability for processors Increased transparency through more [...]

On April 17, 2017, Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed into law an amendment to section 19.230.020 of Washington's Uniform Money Services Act (the 'Act'). The amendment exempts most third party [...]

On January 26, 2017, after taking the unusual step of ordering a full International Trade Commission oral hearing to consider issues including laches, remedy, and public interest, the Commission issued [...]

In the January 5, 2017, Federal Register, USDA's Food and Nutrition Service ('FNS') proposed to revise and clarify requirements for the processing of donated foods in order to incorporate successful [...]

The New Year brought with it many new rule changes for federal and California courts, including in the area of electronic service and filing. A few key rules regarding requirements [...]

The focus and emphasis on corporate governance increased significantly since the corporate fraud and internal governance failure came to light in the context of Satyam Computer Services Limited. Post the [...]

The new General Data Protection Regulation was published in the European Union's Official Journal yesterday. It's now official! Data controllers and processors have two years and 19 days left (at [...]

Jamaica National Money Transfer, MoneyGram, and QuikCash have established new arrangements that will allow them to continue providing remittance services for Cayman Islands customers; and Western Union remains in fruitful [...]

Thanks to the foresight of Jennifer Stoddard, then Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) was a significant contributor to the drafting of ISO/IEC [...]

On September 30, 2014, California's Governor Brown signed A.B. 1710, a bill establishing new requirements under California's data breach notification statute. The new law adds three provisions to the existing [...]

The Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 and the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act regulate certain actions of debt relief service providers. Specifically, those Acts prohibit debt [...]

Canada's Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (the Act) obligates certain businesses with money laundering vulnerabilities to identify clients, keep records, and report prescribed transactions, among other [...]

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has published updated guidance on the difference between data controllers and data processors under the Data Protection Act 1998 (the 'Act'). ICO have produced the [...]

The Article 29 Working Party issued on March 21, 2014, a working document on draft ad hoc contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data between EU-based data processors and [...]

Earlier this week Reuters reported that PNC Financial said it had been served with a subpoena from the United States Department of Justice, relating to 'certain merchant and payment processor [...]

When an employee, or former employee, submits a subject access request ('SAR'), do you know how to respond? Seemingly, there is much variation in the way such is handled. A [...]

The European data protection authorities, assembled in the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), launched Binding Corporate Rules (BCR, also known as Binding Safe Processing Rules) for processors from 1 January [...]

LAW In recent years, Panama has taken significant legislative steps to regulate electronic data protection and internet commerce. However, this regime remains a work in progress. The primary laws and [...]

Binding Corporate Rules Available for Data Processors On 21 December 2012, the Article 29 Working Party (the 'Working Party'), an independent European advisory body on data protection and privacy comprised [...]

The Federal Trade Commission recently finalized changes to its investigative procedures. The changes are intended to streamline a process that has, in recent years, become increasingly lengthy and unwieldy. The [...]

Article by Avv. Felix Hofer 1 The increasing - not to say booming - popularity of cloud computing has induced the Italian DPA to provide businesses processing personal data in [...]

The Office of Inspector General recently released its work plan for fiscal year 2012, which includes a number of 'new start' reviews and activities that it plans to pursue during [...]

Introduction All litigants are obliged to disclose and permit inspection of documents which either support or undermine their case. However all new multi-track cases1 which are commenced on or after [...]

On May 28, 2008, the Illinois Appellate Court, Third Division (Appellate Court) held that a percentage-based fee arrangement between a physician group and a medical billing company was prohibited and [...]

Effective February 4, 2008, U.S. Bank, N.A. will be taking over as the SEC's lockbox financial agent from Mellon Bank, N.A. All required SEC filing fees for Securities Act registration [...]