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Does your company participate in the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework?

It's a voluntary international privacy program administered by the Department of Commerce that lets companies transfer data from the EU to the U.S. in compliance with EU law. To participate in the Safe Harbor Framework, the first step is for a company to certify that it abides by seven principles: notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. But the obligation doesn't end there. A company also has to annually reaffirm that it's still in compliance. That's why saying you have a valid Safe Harbor certification - but failing to self-certify once a year - is a deceptive practice, in violation of the FTC Act.

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Montana to Join Growing List of States Limiting Access to Social Media?

Legislators in Montana gave final approval to H.B. 342, which would limit an employer's ability to access the personal social media accounts of applicants and employees.

The bill now goes to Governor Steve Bullock's office. If signed, Montana would become the most recent state to join the list of 19 states, which limit an employer's access to personal social media accounts. Notably, the proposed Montana law would permit employers to request login credentials when the employer has specific information about the employee's activity that indicates work-related employee misconduct, criminal defamation or the unauthorized transfer by the employee of the employer's proprietary or confidential information, trade secrets, financial data.

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FTC Settles with Two Companies Falsely Claiming to Comply with International Safe Harbor Privacy Framework

"Two U.S. businesses have agreed to settle FTC charges they falsely claimed they were abiding by an international privacy framework known as the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor, which enables U.S. companies to transfer consumer data from the EU to the US in compliance with EU law.

FTC complaints against TES Franchising, LLC, and American International Mailing, Inc. allege that the companies' websites indicated they were currently certified under the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework, when in fact their certifications had lapsed years earlier. ""These cases send an important message that businesses must not deceive consumers about whether they hold these certifications, and by extension, the ways in which they protect consumers,"" said FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez."

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