On March 1, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service alerted the business community of an e-mail phishing scheme designed to convince employees to provide company-wide W-2 tax forms containing social security numbers and other personally identifiable information [view related post]. While the scam has taken different forms, the most prevalent approach is a purported internal
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I am fortunate to teach the Privacy Law class at Roger Williams University School of Law on Tuesday afternoons. Today, we discussed all of the laws relating to the financial services industry. OK, not the most exciting content, but it included the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act (FACTA).
Enacted in 2008, FACTA allows individuals…