When privacy geeks talk “privacy,” it is not uncommon for them to use certain terms interchangeably –personal data, personal information, personally identifiable information, private information, individually identifiable information, protected health information, or individually identifiable health information. They might even speak in acronyms – PI, PII, PHI, NPI, etc. Blurring those distinctions might be OK for
nonpublic personal information
Happy Holidays Financial Institutions, Less Privacy Paperwork in the New Year
By Jackson Lewis P.C. on
Posted in Consumer Privacy
It seems the White House and Congress can agree on at least one thing—financial institutions are over-burdened by current privacy notice rules. In a move that is hoped to save financial institutions significant costs on postage, printing and administrative resources, on Friday, December 4, 2015, President Obama signed the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (the…