Behavioral Advertising
Online behavioral advertising – the practice of tracking someone’s online activities to deliver targeted advertising – can raise potential privacy issues. Do you disclose your practices to your customers and honor your promises?
Children’s Online Privacy
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) gives parents control over what information websites can collect from their kids. If you run a website designed for kids or have a website geared to a general audience but collect information from someone you know is under 13, you must comply with COPPA’s two main requirements.
Credit Reports
Does your business use credit reports to evaluate customers’ credit worthiness? Do you consult credit reports when considering evaluating applications for jobs, leases, and insurance? Here is information about your responsibilities when using, reporting, and disposing of information in those credit reports.
Data Security
Many companies keep sensitive personal information about customers or employees in their files. Having a sound security plan in place can help you meet your legal requirements to protect that sensitive information.
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act requires financial institutions – companies that offer consumers financial products or services like loans, financial or investment advice, or insurance – to explain their information-sharing practices to their customers and to safeguard sensitive data.
Health Privacy
If you offer or maintain personal health records online, you could be covered by the FTC’s Health Breach Notification Rule. Are you familiar with your legal obligations in case of a security mishap?
Red Flags Rule
The Red Flags Rule requires many businesses and organizations to implement a written Identity Theft Prevention Program designed to detect the warning signs – or red flags – of identity theft in their day-to-day operations.