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Washington State Enacts PCI Bill
Washington has enacted a statute, which we first discussed in a prior blog post, to provide financial institutions with a cause of action against certain entities involved in payment card transactions that fail to…
Update: California Supreme Court Agrees to Review Issue of Whether Collecting Customer Zip Codes and Reverse Data Mining for Additional Customer Information Violates California's Song-Beverly Credit Card Act
If you or your company collect zip codes in California as part of a loyalty program or otherwise, and reverse data mine for additional customer information, you should be aware that the California Supreme Court…
Court Holds that Text Messages Could Violate the TCPA
A federal district court in Chicago recently held that SMS messages that are sent to a consumer without the consumer’s consent could violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (the “TCPA”). The decision echoes many…
Washington on the Verge of Enacting PCI Bill
Earlier this month, the Senate and House of Representatives in Washington passed a new PCI bill, HB 1149 . The bill now awaits the Governor’s signature but, if signed into law, will provide financial institutions with…
New Senate Financial Reform Bill Released
Today, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) released a revised financial regulatory reform bill, which would create the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. The Bureau would be housed in the Federal…