Sentences with phrase «protection acts»

Note, for instance, that the full text of the Dodd — Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is over 2,000 pages long.

The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, which Heitkamp co-sponsored, passed the Senate on Wednesday with 17 Democratic votes.

GDPR will supersede the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and expands the rights of individuals to control how their personal information is collected and processed.

First, he says, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 made it more difficult for consumers to file for bankruptcy.

Although Rushing's lawsuit points to Disney Princess Palace Pets as the gaming app that allegedly tracked her child, it also lists 42 other Disney apps that the plaintiffs say violate the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA.

About two decades later, the Firearm Owners» Protection Act effectively banned newly manufactured machine guns from being purchased by civilians at all.

The class action suit alleges that the media giant is violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.

Regulations like the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act restrict the collection of personally identifiable information in content meant for kids, which prevents the use of the kind of hyper - targeted advertisements that dominate digital marketing today.

Companies interacting with children online must comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), while educational institutions are subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).

In 2006, Congress passed the Pension Protection Act, which helped raise participation rates by clarifying language on default opt - ins for employees.

Those include the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), and the Fair and Accurate Credit Transmission Act (FACTA).

«Combined with the strength of the PokerStars brand in the U.S. and its U.S. customer database, it will be in a very strong position to capitalize on the potential revocation of PASPA (the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act) later this year, which could result in a number of U.S. states legalizing online sportsbook / gaming,» he wrote in a report.

Thiel, who also supports the idea of creating autonomous islands on which people could live and create their own laws, said he is in favor of a bi-partisan bill called the «Intimate Privacy Protection Act,» which would make it illegal to distribute explicit private images without a person's consent, and would involve criminal penalties for those who profit from doing so.

These dolls are not the first internet - connected toys that have raised concerns about compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998.

The bureau was established in 2010 with the passage of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

A slew of new regulations passed in 2006, including the sweeping Pension Protection Act, affect everything from phone bills to 401 (k) plans.

The legislation, dubbed the Financial CHOICE Act (H.R. 10) would repeal and replace much of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, otherwise known as Dodd - Frank.

Privacy International says the practice is illegal under the U.K.'s current Data Protection Act, and will be even more so when the act is replaced next month, to be more in line with the EU's incoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

They can't even comply with the Data Protection Act now.»

DeepMind has also been investigated by the United Kingdom's Information Commissioner's Office for failing to comply with the United Kingdom's Data Protection Act as it expands to using its technology in the healthcare space.

On July 8, the U.S. House of Representatives caved into the lobbying interests of the world's biggest auditing firms and passed the Audit Integrity and Job Protection Act.

1999 - Marine Life Protection Act Today, California's system of marine protected areas function as a network for conservation, sustainable fisheries, recreation, and education.

It was launched by two women who claim Impark's fees violate the province's Consumer Protection Act.

The service obviously wants to have a good relationship with leagues like the NFL, and the DMCA requires it to take down content, and even block those who repeatedly post infringing content, or risk losing the «safe harbor» protection the act provides.

TransUnion, since at least July 2011, and Equifax, between July 2011 and March 2014, violated the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act by:

For example, while businesses and government departments in the UK must comply with the Data Protection Act, the Canadian parliament is currently debating a new piece of legislation, the Information Sharing Act, which will allow all departments of government to share information in ways that are not currently permitted in the UK.

«The investigations will examine whether the organizations [Aggregate IQ and Facebook] are in compliance with Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and BC's Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA),» said Canada's watchdog in a statement about the now joint investigation.

Additionally, the Homeowner's Protection Act of 1998 requires lenders to drop PMI when borrowers reach an LTV ratio of 78 %.

GSR was contractually committed to only obtain data in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act and to seek the informed consent of each respondent.

The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, S. 2115, was passed out of the Senate Banking Committee last year after the panel reached a bipartisan agreement on the legislation.

GSR were also contractually the Data Controller (as per Section 1 (1) of the Data Protection Act) for any collected data.

Under Section 55 of the Data Protection Act (Unlawful obtaining etc. of personal data), a criminal offense has not been committed if a person has acted in the reasonable belief that he had in law the right to obtain data.

Rep. Ann Wagner, R - Mo., who sponsored the Retail Investor Protection Act, bipartisan legislation passed in the House that would require the Securities and Exchange Commission, not DOL, to take the lead on crafting a fiduciary rule, said Wednesday that she was «working closely with House leadership and members of the Education and Workforce Committee on using the Congressional Review Act to stop [DOL's] ill - advised rule.»

Given the open nature of the internet, there had to be one data protection act to rule them all.

Still, the demise of Energy East left oil - producing Alberta and Saskatchewan bruised, raising the political stakes as Carr promises, sometime in the coming months, to overhaul the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, 2012, and the National Energy Board Act, along with the Fisheries Act and the Navigation Protection Act.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

The reforms enacted through the 2010 Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act focused primarily on the banking industry, leaving the shadow banking sector largely intact.

The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act bars data collection, the raw materials of targeted ads, from children under 13.

The Committee was established under the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to advise the Commission on regulatory priorities, regulation of securities products, trading strategies, fee structures, disclosure effectiveness, and initiatives to protect investors and promote investor confidence and the integrity of the U.S. securities markets.

Under federal law, fully automatic weapons are technically legal only if made before 1986, when Congress passed the Firearm Owners» Protection Act.

PNC Bank is not registered as a municipal advisor under the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act («Act»).

Moreover, the Consumer Financial Protection Act contained an express statutory prohibition against filing enforcement actions of this sort until the Senate confirmed CFPB's Director.

And sure enough, just hours after Comey testified, the House of Representatives voted to repeal key parts of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which has contributed to an alarming number of small bank closures since its passage in 2010.

Or, as pointed out by the federal environment minister McKenna in a letter Thursday to B.C. environment Minister George Heyman, that Canada already has a mountain of regulation to ensure a world - leading regime to transport oil and products, including: the Railway Safety Act, the Pipeline Safety Act, the National Energy Board Act, the Canada Shipping Act, 2001, the Marine Liability Act, the Fisheries Act, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, and that Ottawa has pledged to spend an additional $ 1.5 billion to protect its coasts and marine environment.

While the USPTO does not investigate complaints or participate in any legal proceedings against invention promoters / promotion firms, under the American Inventors Protection Act of 1999, the USPTO will provide a public forum for the publication of complaints concerning invention promoters / promotion firms.

I have instructed a solicitor, Ravi Naik, who has put together a legal team for my case led by Dinah Rose Q.C., to challenge the company's attempt at complying with the UK Data Protection Act.

Not later than 270 days after the date of enactment of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Commission shall issue final rules that require each resource extraction issuer to include in an annual report of the resource extraction issuer information relating to any payment made by the resource extraction issuer, a subsidiary of the resource extraction issuer, or an entity under the control of the resource extraction issuer to a foreign government or the Federal Government for the purpose of the commercial development of oil, natural gas, or minerals...

The 2010 Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act mandated the disclosure, and the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted rules specifying how it should be done in 2015.

Roe introduced the Affordable Retirement Advice Protection Act (H.R. 4293), which was approved by the education and work force committee on Feb. 2 along with the Strengthening Access to Valuable Education and Retirement Support (SAVERS) Act (H.R. 4294), introduced by Roskam.

Privacy experts have analyzed 5,855 child - directed Android apps and have found that more than half — 57 % — are potentially violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), a US law protecting children's private data online.