The Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) is the world's largest organization serving the professional and business interests of attorneys who practice in the legal departments of corporations, associations, nonprofits and other private-sector organizations around the globe.
Anyone who has come in contact with cross-regional data privacy issues understands the complex challenges faced by in-house counsel and the relevant stakeholders when addressing these concerns on behalf of companies, both for internally and externally- produced information. In no area is the reality of compliance as a process - including policy, law, IT and training-enhanced practice – truer than in data management and ensuring the integrity and application of the data privacy rules.
This session will help you to establish the value of having an IP program, how to get your senior business leadership to buy in to this and how to implement thorough training. Faculty will share tips on effectively communicating with your business partners and executives.
This presentation covers a brief history of US privacy law, the legislative and regulatory framework, and new and social media and how it is affected by privacy laws.
This resource discusses how to best protect confidential information, such as trade secrets, personally identifiable information and company proprietary information. The resource further discusses the relevant laws, such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA.
Identity theft is a huge problem for consumers and the organizations that serve them. In the U.S. alone, five percent of adults – about 10 million – are victimized each year, with total losses of about $50 billion. U.S. companies spend another $50 billion a year on identity-theft-prevention measures. Organizations that handle personal and business account information are a common target of identity thieves. If you aren't careful with this information, you can be used as instruments of identity theft by clever criminals.
This Record Management training course will help you understand (1) the significance of our records; (2) how to create accurate records that won't be easily misconstrued; and (3) when records are to be retained and when they are to be disposed of or recycled.
Recently, leading companies have learned the hard way about being the victim of a breach of data privacy – even though they complied with regulations and standards. Data privacy compliance is a task that is becoming more difficult, and more critical, with each passing month, as more and more jurisdictions (state, federal and international) add to the regulatory matrix, and as private requirements (like the credit card industry's PCI-DSS) become more complex.