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Shredding Laws and Regulations
Could your company survive a lawsuit?
Various state, federal and international regulations govern the protection of private information. Disclosing private information — even by accident — could be grounds for a lawsuit. A secure, reliable shredding program will assist you in remaining legally compliant with privacy laws.
The following is an overview of the three main Federal laws and regulations that
companies and organizations must be in compliance with. At ShredAssured, we stay
abreast of these ever changing laws and how they affect the Data Destruction industry.
You can count on us to protect your privacy and always keep you in compliance with
them.
• The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA)
What is FACTA?
Signed into law on December 4, 2003, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions
Act (FACTA) is federal legislation aimed at the prevention and penalization of consumer
fraud and identity theft. Administered by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the
FACTA Disposal Rule has been in effect since June 1, 2005. The Disposal Rule puts
in place requirements for proper document disposal and destruction, and recognizes
the problems that can and do arise when private information is disposed of in an
irresponsible manner.
Who is affected by FACTA?
FACTA applies to virtually all persons
and businesses in the United States, mandating that “any person who maintains or
otherwise possesses consumer information, or any compilation of consumer information,
for a business purpose must properly dispose of such information by taking reasonable
measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of the information in connection
with its disposal.”
Under FACTA, consumer information is defined as personal identifying
materials which extend beyond just a person’s name, including:
To comply with the FACTA Disposal Rule, businesses and individuals must take “reasonable
measures” to ensure such information does not fall into the wrong hands. Reasonable
measures include the “burning, pulverizing, or shredding” of paper documents, such
as the contracting of a third-party engaged in the document destruction business
to dispose of confidential information in a manner consistent with the Act.
Failure
to abide by FACTA may result in stiff penalties. Victims are entitled to actual damages
sustained due to incompliance; they may also seek statutory damages, and, in some
cases, file class-action suits. Federal and state authorities are also empowered
to bring legal enforcement actions against businesses that violate the Act.
• The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
What is HIPAA?
Signed into federal law in 1996, HIPAA was created to combat fraud
and abuse in the health insurance industry. The Act stipulates that all United States
health care organizations must "maintain reasonable and appropriate, technical, and
physical safeguards to prevent intentional or unintentional use or disclosure of
protected health information."
HIPAA protection attaches to all information relating
“to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual,
or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of healthcare.” Materials
that would contain such protected information include patient histories, logs, notes,
forms, billing and insurance information, and any other records containing personal
information in the possession of healthcare providers.
Who is affected by HIPAA?
Regardless
of size, all healthcare providers in the United States must have documented policies
defining reasonable measures that are being taken to protect personal health information
and ensure the organization is protecting against unauthorized access to personal
information.
This includes all organizations or individuals who retain and/or collect
health-related information, such as: hospitals, medical centers, insurance companies,
billing centers, collection agencies, doctors, dentists, chiropractors, psychiatrists,
psychologists and any other institutions or individuals responsible for personal
health-related information.
• The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA)
What is GLBA?
Also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley
Act (GLBA) was enacted in 1999 to protect private consumer information held by financial
institutions. The GLBA requires banks to develop privacy notices and to provide customers
with the option of prohibiting the sharing of their confidential information with
non-affiliated third parties. On July 1, 2001, the Act was amended, requiring financial
organizations to have a comprehensive, written information security program in place.
Who is affected by GLBA ?
The GLBA applies to virtually every business in the United
States engaged in the “financial services” industry: institutions that provide financial
products and services to consumers. This applies to all national banks and federal
branches of foreign banks that are required to follow US banking regulations.
According
to the Act, financial institutions are required to implement a comprehensive, written
information security program that includes proper administrative, technical and physical
safeguards, the nature of which are dependent upon the size and complexity of the
organization. This requirement extends to any subsidiaries of the parent financial
organization. The program must be designed to protect consumers’ non-public, personally-identifiable
information by ensuring security and confidentiality of data, by preventing potential
risks and threats to data, and by protecting against unauthorized access to or use
of consumers’ private information.
When using service providers such as an outsourced
document destruction company, financial institutions have a duty to safeguard their
customers’ information while it is in the possession of the outsourced company. To
adhere to this, the financial organization must use due diligence in selecting, managing
and monitoring the service provider to ensure consumers’ private information is protected.
This includes entering into contracts with a document destruction company when appropriate.
The following are brief descriptions for some of the other many laws and regulations that companies and organizations must be in compliance with. At ShredAssured, we stay abreast of all these ever changing laws and how they affect the Data Destruction industry. You can count on us to protect your privacy and always keep you in compliance.
• The 1974 Federal Privacy Act was established to insure that government agencies protect the privacy of individuals and businesses with regard to information held by them and to hold these agencies liable if any information is released without authorization.
• Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) — Regulation S-P: The purpose of this Regulation is to bring businesses regulated by the SEC into compliance with the concepts for privacy outlined under the GLB Act. This Act applies to broker-dealers, funds, registered advisors, those who deal with variable annuity or variable life insurance, and any other entities dealing in Securities.
• Safe Harbor Privacy Principles: In October 1998, the European Union’s wide-sweeping privacy legislation — called the European Union Data Protection Directive — became effective. The Directive places new requirements on businesses that wish to collect, process or transfer personal data from an EU Member State to an non-EU Member State. Under the Directive, the transfer of personal information from an EU Member State to a non-EU country is forbidden unless the country and the company involved provide an “adequate” level of privacy protection.
• FERMA exists to widen and raise the culture of Risk Management throughout Europe to its members and to the risk management and insurance community. It achieves its aims by promotion and raising awareness of risk management through the media, by information sharing, educational and research projects.
• Sarbanes Oxley Act (2002) was passed to implement changes in federal securities regulation, corporate governance, and the regulation or auditors. It expanded federal white-collar laws criminalizing the destruction of certain corporate communications and documents.
• Federal Rule 26: By not adhering to a program of routinely destroying stored records, a company exhibits suspicious disposal practices that could be negatively construed in the event of litigation or audit. Destroying on a set schedule limits your legal risks.
• FERPA is a Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records. The law applies to all schools that receive funds under an applicable program of the U.S. Department of Education. FERPA gives parents certain rights with respect to their children's education records. These rights transfer to the student when he or she reaches the age of 18 or attends a school beyond the high school level.
• Fair Credit Reporting: Enforced by the Federal Trade Commission, is designed to promote accuracy and ensure the privacy of the information used in consumer reports. Recent amendments to the Act expand your rights and place additional requirements on Consumer Reporting Agencies. Businesses that supply information about you to Consumer Reporting Agencies and those that use consumer reports also have new responsibilities under the law.
• Economic Espionage Act makes the theft or misappropriation of trade secrets a criminal offense, and is the first federal law that purports to both broadly define and severely punish such misappropriation and theft.
Your Partner in Regulatory Compliance
ShredAssured provides security and consulting
services that keep your company in compliance with all mandated State and Federal
laws pertaining to document destruction, thus allowing your company to be confident
all regulations are being administered.
For more information, give us a call at 1-800-838-3840 to find out how ShredAssured can help your company save money, protect its information, and comply with federal and state laws. Our client specialists are ready to assist and willing to help in any way they can.