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What is the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (“GLBA”) Financial Privacy Rule?

What is the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (“GLBA”) Financial Privacy Rule? The regulations require financial institutions to provide particular notices and to comply with certain limitations on disclosure of nonpublic personal information. A financial institution must provide a notice of its privacy...

What is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act?

What is the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act? This Act directs the FTC to issue a rule requiring entities that obtain consumers’ personal information but are not subject to the Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) (Pub. L. No...

What is the Privacy Act of 1974?

What is the Privacy Act of 1974? The Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. § 552a (2012), which has been in effect since September 27, 1975, can generally be characterized as an omnibus “code of fair information practices” that attempts to regulate the collection, maintenance, use, and dissemination of...

What is the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 ("RFPA")?

What is the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 ("RFPA")? The 1978 Right to Financial Privacy Act (RFPA) establishes specific procedures that federal government authorities must follow in order to obtain information from a financial institution about a customer’s financial records. Generally,...

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