Aly McDevitt
Aly McDevitt has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported on private equity and venture capital activity in emerging markets and edited content on international business, legal, and regulatory developments.
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ArticleBusiness lessons from past pandemics: Be ready for a second wave
Past pandemics—and there have been four in the last 100-plus years—offer critical lessons for businesses striving to make socially responsible decisions today while also remaining operational in the future.
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Benefits of tele-investigating in the time of coronavirus
The financial and operational implications of COVID-19 for businesses are vast and damaging. One area of business impacted is internal investigations. Here’s why tele-investigating isn’t all bad.
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10 takeaways from ‘Science of Workplace Investigations’
A former U.S. Department of Justice attorney laid bare the tools in his “lie detection” toolbox to help compliance officers manage this responsibility.
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GoodRx’s mea culpa: Lessons for internet companies handling personal health data
Telemedicine platform GoodRx has committed to enhancements of its consumer data protection after Consumer Reports called out its sharing practices regarding personal health information.
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Q&A: Clearing up confusion with OFAC’s 50 Percent rule
Compliance Week spoke with Tiffany Archer, regional ethics and compliance officer and corporate counsel at Panasonic Avionics Corporation, on demystifying OFAC’s 50 Percent rule.
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Training methods for kids and employees aren’t that different
The general principles for creating a culture of compliance for 12-year-olds in a classroom are just as effective in a workplace setting.
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Ireland raid over privacy concerns jilts Facebook Dating
Facebook wants to play Cupid in Europe, but the Irish Data Protection Commission got its arrow in the tech giant first.
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Spirit AeroSystems faces class action over accounting woes
In the wake of an ongoing accounting probe and the resignation of two top finance executives, Spirit AeroSystems is facing a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of shareholders.
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Report: DOJ zeroes in on Google’s ad brokerage business
The DOJ’s scrutiny of Google’s online ad business reflects growing concerns over the tech giant’s potentially anticompetitive behavior, prompts the reclusion of an antitrust enforcement official from the probe, and points to closer coordination between federal and state authorities.
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Avast dissolves analytics arm following privacy scandal
Avast maintains it always acted “fully within legal bounds,” but the British cyber-security company terminated the provision of data to its analytics arm, Jumpshot, after being accused of putting users’ privacy at risk.
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Ad industry requests delay on CCPA enforcement
Insufficient time to prepare was the argument invoked by five advertising trade bodies this week when requesting a further delay to the enforcement of the newly enacted California Consumer Privacy Act
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Proposed bill seeks to help non-federal entities improve cyber-security
A new bill proposed by Congress would install a federal “cyber-security state coordinator” in each state to facilitate non-federal entities’ access to technical know-how, training, communications, and other resources for improved cyber-security.
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Survey: CCPA still poses compliance nightmare
With the clock ticking toward the Jan. 1 implementation date, Compliance Week and ACA Aponix asked 100 compliance practitioners whether their company would be CCPA compliant by the deadline. Their collective answer? Nope.
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Wells Fargo’s new TPRM head looked to Theranos for lessons
At CW’s Third-Party Risk Management and Oversight Summit, the head of Wells Fargo’s global TPRM group took a few pages out of biotech startup Theranos’ book to shed light on what not to do when building a risk culture.
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Former FCPA chief’s 7 steps to third-party compliance
Speaking at CW’s Third-Party Risk Management and Oversight Summit, former FCPA Unit chief Kara Brockmeyer called attention to recent enforcement actions against Walmart and Ericsson as a way to highlight seven steps to third-party compliance.
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U.S. lenders feel confident, but why? Compliance, risk challenges abound
Financial institutions are feeling more confident than ever about their compliance management practices, but they remain concerned about the “moving targets” of regulators, new research shows.
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Senate Dems propose ‘clear as a bell’ U.S. privacy law
Senate Democrats have proposed a new federal data privacy bill that seeks to empower consumers and support their civil rights in the digital economy.
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‘Femtech’ wanders into uncharted regulatory territory
Applications that serve women’s health needs could soon be held to a higher standard of accountability for protecting users’ data if they become classified as “covered entities” under HIPAA.
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Regulators need experts in AI, too
Machine learning isn’t something that’s going to happen—it’s already happened. Ali Shah, head of tech policy at the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office, discusses how artificial intelligence will impact regulators.
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U.S. consumers express unease over personal data collection
A recent survey says a majority of Americans don’t trust data privacy policies and procedures, even while U.S. companies are hastening to enhance them in advance of the California Consumer Privacy Act’s implementation.
