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SEC Doubles Down on Safeguards Rule Enforcement

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued sanctions against three financial services companies last week. The sanctions came in response to a series of email-takeover attacks in which Personally Identifiable Information (PII) was exposed.  In each case, the SEC found that the firms failed to implement proper cybersecurity measures against breaches. Each firm was found responsible…
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Cfpb And Fintech

Why Fintech Companies Want to be Regulated by the CFPB

It’s unusual to see an industry making a formal request to be regulated, but that’s exactly what fintech data aggregators are asking of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).  Companies like Plaid and Robinhood have reasoned that more oversight by the CFPB comes with access to more consumer data–which in turn would allow fintech companies…
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A Guide to New Draft SCCs–and the EDPB’s Response

Ever since the EU-US Privacy Shield was struck down in Schrems 2.o, companies have been scrambling to figure out how to safely transfer data in and out of the EU while remaining compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). At this point, the general consensus is that transfers from the EU should only be…
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2020 News in Review

Week Ending December 28  ICO Warns SolarWinds Victims to Report Breaches  The United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has issued a warning to organizations compromised by the SolarWinds breach. The breach, which was carried out by Russian hackers, affected more than 18000 organizations worldwide. ICO requires UK data controllers subject to NIS regulations to report…
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OCC And Capitol One

OCC Fines Capital One: Key Takeaways

Last year, Capital One experienced one of the largest-ever data breaches of a bank, when a hacker–Paige Thompson–got her hands on the personal information of over 106 million customers and applicants via a misconfigured AWS server. Now, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has hit the bank with a whopping $80 million…
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