All Social Media articles – Page 2

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    Actiance Socialite solves compliance challenges for companies using Instagram

    2016-07-26T10:30:00Z

    Actiance, a communications compliance, archiving, and analytics provider, recenly announced enhanced Actiance Socialite support for Instagram, ensuring that companies using Instagram as an enterprise communication tool meet compliance mandates.

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    Bill Would Force Tech Companies to Report Terrorist Activity

    2015-12-09T14:15:00Z

    Social media sites would be required to report terrorist activity on their networks if newly reintroduced legislation gains needed support. The Requiring Reporting of Online Terrorist Activity Act would require technology companies to alert law enforcement agencies to online terrorist activity. The bill stops short, however, of requiring companies to ...

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    Is Social Media Considered ‘Real Monitoring’?

    2015-11-19T11:15:00Z

    A recent survey by Compliance Solutions at Charles Schwab found that compliance officers spend 11 hours per week monitoring their employees’ personal brokerage accounts, while half are closely monitoring social media platforms. One of the main challenges that compliance officers face is chasing data, which are “owned” by other departments. ...

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    Blockbuster Mergers Prompt 'Tweet' Disclosures

    2015-09-01T11:15:00Z

    “Safe, not sorry” is the approach companies currently involved in multi-billion dollar mergers are taking to their disclosures of social media communications to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Insurance giants Aetna and Humana, in the midst of a $37 billion deal, and Charter Communications(merging with Time Warner Cable), have disclosed ...

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    Mending Social Media Compliance Gaps

    2015-07-14T14:30:00Z

    Two recent studies hold both good and bad news on the state of social media compliance today: Compliance officers no longer approach corporate use of social media with the trepidation they once did, but those channels leave companies increasingly vulnerable to regulatory violations. According to these studies, the financial services ...

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    DOJ Joins Instagram ... Your Move, SEC!

    2015-07-01T12:15:00Z

    The DOJ sees your Pinterest account, SEC, and raises you an Instagram account! Today the DOJ announced on the front page of its website that it has taken the Instagram plunge.

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    Drug, Device Companies Face New FDA Electronic Submissions

    2015-06-30T09:45:00Z

    The Food and Drug Administration is overhauling how it accepts submissions for a host of filing requirements imposed on drug and medical device makers. For many, this will be the first time the submissions have ever been filed electronically. While the move away from paper documents may ultimately be advantageous ...

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    Study: Social Media Befuddles Compliance

    2015-05-12T12:45:00Z

    The average Fortune 100 firm has approximately 320 social media accounts and engages with more than 210,000 “followers” annually. The problem, according to a new study, is that the pace, scale, and informal culture of corporate social media creates regulatory risks that go beyond the traditional skill set of compliance ...

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    Advocacy Groups Looking for an SEC Superhero

    2015-04-17T10:15:00Z

    From the depths of the D.C. Metro system comes a social media campaign from an advocacy group that depicts SEC Chairman Mary Jo White as a superhero. The campaign revolves around the concept of White with a cape and an MJW logo, taking down the scourge of “dark money.” See ...

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    NLRB’s Brain-Dump on Lawful Company Policies

    2015-03-31T10:45:00Z

    Image: The National Labor Relations Board has churned out an extensive piece of guidance on what makes a company policy lawful or not, on everything from making disparaging comments (often can’t be forbidden) to talking with the media or regulators (forget about forbidding it) and many more. “The memo is ...

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    FTC, FDA Take Closer Look at Disclosures

    2015-01-21T12:00:00Z

    The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on companies with questionable advertising disclosures. The Food and Drug Administration, meanwhile, may allow shorter lists of side effects in drug and medical device ads, even as it prepares tougher standards for how these companies use online advertising and social media. The focus ...

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    Assessing Your Digital Marketing Risk

    2015-01-21T11:15:00Z

    Internal auditors with not enough to do, cheer up: Digital marketing risk is emerging as a new headache to keep you busy. Data theft and fraud are rampant, and ways to find and seal up those weaknesses aren’t entirely clear. “It’s a newer area,” says Bill Michalisin of the Institute ...

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    NLRB Push Forces Rethinking of Social Media Policies

    2015-01-13T14:30:00Z

    Through numerous rulings last year, the National Labor Relations Board reshaped the boundaries of acceptable social media policies companies can impose on employees. The result: an unsettling world where, yes, employees might be allowed to curse a manager or to use corporate e-mail to raise pro-union sentiments. Compliance officers might ...

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    FTC Finalizes User Privacy Charges Against Snapchat

    2015-01-02T14:15:00Z

    Image: The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that Snapchat deceived consumers with promises about the disappearing nature of messages sent through the service. “If a company markets privacy and security as key selling points in pitching its service to consumers, it is critical that it ...