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PCI Security Standards Council to Release Updated Security Standards: PCI DSS 2.0 and PA-DSS 2.0
On Thursday, August 12, 2010, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released a document highlighting proposed revisions to the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and Payment…
Congress Explores Consumer Privacy Protection
The emergence of privacy legislation from several committees in both chambers of Congress in the past months, combined with the ongoing FTC scrutiny of existing privacy practices of companies during the past year,…
S.D.N.Y: Plaintiffs Asserting Claims Based on Risk of Identity Theft Lack Standing
The Southern District of New York, recently, in Hammond v. The Bank of New York Mellon Corp., No. 08-6060, 2010 WL 2643307 (S.D.N.Y. June 25, 2010) joined other courts from around the country in holding that…
Scrutiny on Payment Card Data Pass
On April 27, Visa announced a new rule to expressly restrict online marketers from sharing cardholder information to other companies without the consumer’s knowledge or active consent – a practice referred to as “data…
Representative Boucher Introduces Privacy Legislation
On May 4, 2010, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA), the House Energy and Commerce Communications, Technology, and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman, and Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee,…