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news release describing it. The FTC Act
and other laws that the Commission
administers permit the collection of
public comments to consider and use in
this proceeding, as appropriate. The
Commission will consider all timely
and responsive public comments that it
receives on or before October 9, 2019.
For information on the Commission’s
privacy policy, including routine uses
permitted by the Privacy Act, see
https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/
privacy-policy.
Analysis of Proposed Consent Order To
Aid Public Comment
The Federal Trade Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) has accepted, subject to
final approval, an agreement containing
a consent order from EmpiriStat, Inc.
(‘‘EmpiriStat’’ or ‘‘Respondent’’).
The proposed consent order
(‘‘proposed order’’) has been placed on
the public record for thirty (30) days for
receipt of comments by interested
persons. Comments received during this
period will become part of the public
record. After thirty (30) days, the
Commission will again review the
agreement and the comments received,
and will decide whether it should
withdraw from the agreement and take
appropriate action or make final the
agreement’s proposed order.
This matter concerns alleged false or
misleading representations that
EmpiriStat made concerning its
participation in and compliance with
the Privacy Shield framework agreed
upon by the U.S. and the European
Union (‘‘EU’’). The Privacy Shield
framework allows U.S. companies to
receive personal data transferred from
the EU without violating EU. The
frameworks consist of a set of principles
and related requirements that have been
deemed by the European Commission as
providing ‘‘adequate’’ privacy
protection. The principles include
notice; choice; accountability for
onward transfer; security; data integrity
and purpose limitation; access; and
recourse, enforcement, and liability. The
related requirements include, for
example, securing an independent
recourse mechanism to handle any
disputes about how the company
handles information about EU citizens.
To participate in the frameworks, a
company must comply with the Privacy
Shield principles and self-certify that
compliance to the U.S. Department of
Commerce (‘‘Commerce’’). Commerce
reviews companies’ self-certification
applications and maintains a public
website, https://www.privacyshield.gov/
list, where it posts the names of
companies who have completed the
requirements for certification.
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Companies are required to recertify
every year in order to continue
benefitting from Privacy Shield.
EmpiriStat provides statistical
analysis and clinical trial support
services. According to the Commission’s
complaint, EmpiriStat published on its
website, https://www.empiristat.com, a
privacy policy containing statements
related to its participation in Privacy
Shield.
The Commission’s proposed threecount complaint alleges that
Respondent violated Section 5(a) of the
Federal Trade Commission Act.
Specifically, the proposed complaint
alleges that Respondent engaged in a
deceptive act or practice by falsely
representing that it was a certified
participant in the EU-U.S. and SwissU.S. Privacy Shield frameworks. The
proposed complaint further alleges that
Respondent engaged in deceptive acts or
practices by representing that it
complied with those frameworks when
in fact it had failed to comply with
certain Privacy Shield requirements.
Part I of the proposed order prohibits
the company from making
misrepresentations about its
membership in any privacy or security
program sponsored by the government
or any other self-regulatory or standardsetting organization, including, but not
limited to, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy
Shield framework.
Part II of the proposed order requires
that the company affirm to Commerce
that it will either continue to apply the
Privacy Shield framework principles to
any data it received pursuant to
frameworks or will delete or return such
data.
Parts III through VI of the proposed
order are reporting and compliance
provisions. Part III requires
acknowledgement of the order and
dissemination of the order now and in
the future to persons with
responsibilities relating to the subject
matter of the order. Part IV ensures
notification to the FTC of changes in
corporate status and mandates that the
company submit an initial compliance
report to the FTC. Part V requires the
company to create certain documents
relating to its compliance with the order
for ten (10) years and to retain those
documents for a five-year period. Part VI
mandates that the company make
available to the FTC information or
subsequent compliance reports, as
requested.
Part VII is a provision ‘‘sun-setting’’
the order after twenty (20) years, with
certain exceptions.
The purpose of this analysis is to aid
public comment on the proposed order.
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It is not intended to constitute an
official interpretation of the complaint
or proposed order, or to modify in any
way the proposed order’s terms.
By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Acting Secretary.
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
[File No. 182 3188]
DCR Workforce, Inc.; Analysis To Aid
Public Comment
Federal Trade Commission.
Proposed consent agreement;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The consent agreement in this
matter settles alleged violations of
federal law prohibiting unfair or
deceptive acts or practices. The attached
Analysis to Aid Public Comment
describes both the allegations in the
complaint and the terms of the consent
order—embodied in the consent
agreement—that would settle these
allegations.
SUMMARY:
Comments must be received on
or before October 9, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file
comments online or on paper, by
following the instructions in the
Request for Comment part of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section
below. Write: ‘‘DCR Workforce, Inc.;
File No. 182 3188’’ on your comment,
and file your comment online at https://
www.regulations.gov by following the
instructions on the web-based form. If
you prefer to file your comment on
paper, mail your comment to the
following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite
CC–5610 (Annex D), Washington, DC
20580, or deliver your comment to the
following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW,
5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex D),
Washington, DC 20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robin Wetherill (202–326–2220),
Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal
Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to Section 6(f) of the Federal Trade
Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and
FTC Rule 2.34, 16 CFR 2.34, notice is
hereby given that the above-captioned
consent agreement containing a consent
order to cease and desist, having been
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filed with and accepted, subject to final
approval, by the Commission, has been
placed on the public record for a period
of thirty (30) days. The following
Analysis to Aid Public Comment
describes the terms of the consent
agreement and the allegations in the
complaint. An electronic copy of the
full text of the consent agreement
package can be obtained from the FTC
Home Page (for September 3, 2019), on
the World Wide Web, at https://
www.ftc.gov/news-events/commissionactions.
You can file a comment online or on
paper. For the Commission to consider
your comment, we must receive it on or
before October 9, 2019. Write ‘‘DCR
Workforce, Inc.; File No. 182 3188’’ on
your comment. Your comment—
including your name and your state—
will be placed on the public record of
this proceeding, including, to the extent
practicable, on the https://
www.regulations.gov website.
Postal mail addressed to the
Commission is subject to delay due to
heightened security screening. As a
result, we encourage you to submit your
comments online through the https://
www.regulations.gov website.
If you prefer to file your comment on
paper, write ‘‘DCR Workforce, Inc.; File
No. 182 3188’’ on your comment and on
the envelope, and mail your comment to
the following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite
CC–5610 (Annex D), Washington, DC
20580; or deliver your comment to the
following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
Constitution Center, 400 7th Street SW,
5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex D),
Washington, DC 20024. If possible,
submit your paper comment to the
Commission by courier or overnight
service.
Because your comment will be placed
on the publicly accessible website at
https://www.regulations.gov, you are
solely responsible for making sure that
your comment does not include any
sensitive or confidential information. In
particular, your comment should not
include any sensitive personal
information, such as your or anyone
else’s Social Security number; date of
birth; driver’s license number or other
state identification number, or foreign
country equivalent; passport number;
financial account number; or credit or
debit card number. You are also solely
responsible for making sure that your
comment does not include any sensitive
health information, such as medical
records or other individually
identifiable health information. In
addition, your comment should not
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include any ‘‘trade secret or any
commercial or financial information
which . . . is privileged or
confidential’’—as provided by Section
6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and
FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2)—
including in particular competitively
sensitive information such as costs,
sales statistics, inventories, formulas,
patterns, devices, manufacturing
processes, or customer names.
Comments containing material for
which confidential treatment is
requested must be filed in paper form,
must be clearly labeled ‘‘Confidential,’’
and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c).
In particular, the written request for
confidential treatment that accompanies
the comment must include the factual
and legal basis for the request, and must
identify the specific portions of the
comment to be withheld from the public
record. See FTC Rule 4.9(c). Your
comment will be kept confidential only
if the General Counsel grants your
request in accordance with the law and
the public interest. Once your comment
has been posted on the public FTC
website—as legally required by FTC
Rule 4.9(b)—we cannot redact or
remove your comment from the FTC
website, unless you submit a
confidentiality request that meets the
requirements for such treatment under
FTC Rule 4.9(c), and the General
Counsel grants that request.
Visit the FTC website at https://
www.ftc.gov to read this Notice and the
news release describing it. The FTC Act
and other laws that the Commission
administers permit the collection of
public comments to consider and use in
this proceeding, as appropriate. The
Commission will consider all timely
and responsive public comments that it
receives on or before October 9, 2019.
For information on the Commission’s
privacy policy, including routine uses
permitted by the Privacy Act, see
https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/
privacy-policy.
Analysis of Proposed Consent Order To
Aid Public Comment
The Federal Trade Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) has accepted, subject to
final approval, an agreement containing
a consent order from DCR Workforce,
Inc. (‘‘DCR Workforce’’ or
‘‘Respondent’’).
The proposed consent order
(‘‘proposed order’’) has been placed on
the public record for thirty (30) days for
receipt of comments by interested
persons. Comments received during this
period will become part of the public
record. After thirty (30) days, the
Commission will again review the
agreement and the comments received,
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and will decide whether it should
withdraw from the agreement and take
appropriate action or make final the
agreement’s proposed order.
This matter concerns alleged false or
misleading representations that DCR
Workforce made concerning its
participation in the Privacy Shield
framework agreed upon by the U.S. and
the European Union (‘‘EU’’). The
Privacy Shield framework allows U.S.
companies to receive personal data
transferred from the EU without
violating EU. The frameworks consist of
a set of principles and related
requirements that have been deemed by
the European Commission as providing
‘‘adequate’’ privacy protection. The
principles include notice; choice;
accountability for onward transfer;
security; data integrity and purpose
limitation; access; and recourse,
enforcement, and liability. The related
requirements include, for example,
securing an independent recourse
mechanism to handle any disputes
about how the company handles
information about EU citizens.
To participate in the frameworks, a
company must comply with the Privacy
Shield principles and self-certify that
compliance to the U.S. Department of
Commerce (‘‘Commerce’’). Commerce
reviews companies’ self-certification
applications and maintains a public
website, https://www.privacyshield.gov/
list, where it posts the names of
companies who have completed the
requirements for certification.
Companies are required to recertify
every year in order to continue
benefitting from Privacy Shield.
DCR Workforce provides workforce
management software. According to the
Commission’s complaint, DCR
Workforce published on its website,
https://www.dcrworkforce.com, a privacy
policy containing statements related to
its participation in Privacy Shield.
The Commission’s proposed onecount complaint alleges that
Respondent violated Section 5(a) of the
Federal Trade Commission Act.
Specifically, the proposed complaint
alleges that Respondent engaged in a
deceptive act or practice by falsely
representing that it was a certified
participant in the EU-U.S. Shield
Framework.
Part I of the proposed order prohibits
the company from making
misrepresentations about its
membership in any privacy or security
program sponsored by the government
or any other self-regulatory or standardsetting organization, including, but not
limited to, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy
Shield framework.
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Parts II through V of the proposed
order are reporting and compliance
provisions. Part II requires
acknowledgement of the order and
dissemination of the order now and in
the future to persons with
responsibilities relating to the subject
matter of the order. Part III ensures
notification to the FTC of changes in
corporate status and mandates that the
company submit an initial compliance
report to the FTC. Part IV requires the
company to create certain documents
relating to its compliance with the order
for twenty (20) years and to retain those
documents for a five-year period. Part V
mandates that the company make
available to the FTC information or
subsequent compliance reports, as
requested.
Part VI is a provision ‘‘sun-setting’’
the order after twenty (20) years, with
certain exceptions.
The purpose of this analysis is to aid
public comment on the proposed order.
It is not intended to constitute an
official interpretation of the complaint
or proposed order, or to modify in any
way the proposed order’s terms.
By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Acting Secretary.
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OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS
Privacy Act of 1974; Systems of
Records
AGENCY:
Office of Government Ethics
(OGE).
ACTION:
Notice of a modified system of
records.
OGE proposes to revise an
existing Governmentwide system of
records under the Privacy Act, covering
Executive Branch Confidential Financial
Disclosure Reports.
DATES: This action will be effective
without further notice on November 8,
2019 unless comments received before
this date would result in a contrary
determination.
SUMMARY:
Comments may be
submitted to OGE by any of the
following methods:
Email: usoge@oge.gov (Include
reference to ‘‘OGE/GOVT–2’’ in the
subject line of the message.)
Mail, Hand Delivery/Courier: Office of
Government Ethics, 1201 New York
Avenue NW, Suite 500, Attention:
Jennifer Matis, Associate Counsel,
Washington, DC 20005–3917.
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Instructions: Comments may be
posted on OGE’s website, www.oge.gov.
Sensitive personal information, such as
account numbers or Social Security
numbers, should not be included.
Comments generally will not be edited
to remove any identifying or contact
information before posting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jennifer Matis at the U.S. Office of
Government Ethics; telephone: 202–
482–9216; TTY: 800–877–8339; FAX:
202–482–9237; Email: jmatis@oge.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Privacy Act of
1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, this document
provides public notice that OGE is
proposing to revise and update the
OGE/GOVT–2 Governmentwide system
of records in several respects. A
Governmentwide system of records is a
system of records where one agency (in
this case, OGE) has regulatory authority
over records in the custody of multiple
agencies and the agency with regulatory
authority publishes a SORN that applies
to all of the records regardless of their
custodial location.
OGE proposes to add two new routine
uses as required by OMB Memorandum
‘‘Preparing for and Responding to a
Breach of Personally Identifiable
Information,’’ M–17–12, (January 3,
2017). These new routine uses allow
agencies to disclose information when
necessary to respond to a suspected or
confirmed breach or to prevent,
minimize, or remedy harm resulting
from such a breach.
OGE proposes to change the
description of the categories of
individuals covered by the system of
records to make it more clear and easy
to understand. By eliminating much of
the technical description, the new
language is more concise and consistent
with plain language goals. No
substantive change in the categories of
individuals covered by the system of
records is proposed. Likewise, OGE
proposes to update the retention and
disposal information to reflect the
current General Records Schedule
retention and disposal requirements for
these records.
OGE proposes to modify routine uses
(e.) (formerly routine use (f.)) and (g.)
(formerly routine use (h.)) and remove
the old routine use (b.) in accordance
with OMB and Department of Justice
guidance and applicable case law. The
remaining routine uses have been redesignated accordingly.
Finally, the changes will update the
authority for maintenance of the system,
the categories of records in the system,
and the administrative, technical, and
physical safeguards, update the system
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manager and notification procedure in
accordance with OGE’s current
organizational structure, clarify the
language in the ‘‘Purpose’’ section, and
make minor editorial changes.
Accordingly, the Office of
Government Ethics is publishing the
following notice of a proposed revised
Governmentwide system of records
covering Executive Branch Confidential
Financial Disclosure Reports:
SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER:
OGE/GOVT–2, Executive Branch
Confidential Financial Disclosure
Reports.
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION:
Unclassified.
SYSTEM LOCATION:
Individual agency ethics offices or
other designated agency offices.
SYSTEM MANAGER(S):
These records are maintained in the
department or agency where the reports
are filed. For questions about a
particular report, contact the Designated
Agency Ethics Official (DAEO) at the
department or agency concerned. For
general questions about this system of
records, contact the OGE Senior Agency
Official for Privacy, Office of
Government Ethics, Suite 500, 1201
New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
20005–3917.
AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM:
5 U.S.C. app. (Ethics in Government
Act of 1978); E.O. 12674 (as modified by
E.O. 12731); 5 CFR part 2634.
PURPOSE(S) OF THE SYSTEM:
These records are collected and
maintained to meet the requirements of
Executive Order 12674, as modified, 5
CFR part 2634, and agency regulations
thereunder, as well as section 107 of the
Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as
amended, concerning the filing of
confidential financial disclosure reports.
Such reports are required to assure
compliance with ethics laws and
regulations, and to determine if an
actual or apparent conflict of interest
exists between the employment of
individuals by the Federal Government
and their outside employment and
financial interests.
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE
SYSTEM:
Officers and employees in the
executive branch whose positions have
been designated as confidential
financial disclosure filing positions in
accordance with 5 CFR 2634.904 and 5
U.S.C. app. 107. In addition, all
executive branch special Government
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
[File No. 182 3188]
DCR Workforce, Inc.; Analysis To Aid Public Comment
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.
ACTION: Proposed consent agreement; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The consent agreement in this matter settles alleged
violations of federal law prohibiting unfair or deceptive acts or
practices. The attached Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes both
the allegations in the complaint and the terms of the consent order--
embodied in the consent agreement--that would settle these allegations.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 9, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may file comments online or on paper, by
following the instructions in the Request for Comment part of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below. Write: ``DCR Workforce, Inc.;
File No. 182 3188'' on your comment, and file your comment online at
https://www.regulations.gov by following the instructions on the web-
based form. If you prefer to file your comment on paper, mail your
comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office of
the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite CC-5610 (Annex D),
Washington, DC 20580, or deliver your comment to the following address:
Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Constitution Center,
400 7th Street SW, 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex D), Washington, DC
20024.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robin Wetherill (202-326-2220), Bureau
of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission, 600 Pennsylvania
Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to Section 6(f) of the Federal
Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 46(f), and FTC Rule 2.34, 16 CFR 2.34,
notice is hereby given that the above-captioned consent agreement
containing a consent order to cease and desist, having been
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filed with and accepted, subject to final approval, by the Commission,
has been placed on the public record for a period of thirty (30) days.
The following Analysis to Aid Public Comment describes the terms of the
consent agreement and the allegations in the complaint. An electronic
copy of the full text of the consent agreement package can be obtained
from the FTC Home Page (for September 3, 2019), on the World Wide Web,
at https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/commission-actions.
You can file a comment online or on paper. For the Commission to
consider your comment, we must receive it on or before October 9, 2019.
Write ``DCR Workforce, Inc.; File No. 182 3188'' on your comment. Your
comment--including your name and your state--will be placed on the
public record of this proceeding, including, to the extent practicable,
on the https://www.regulations.gov website.
Postal mail addressed to the Commission is subject to delay due to
heightened security screening. As a result, we encourage you to submit
your comments online through the https://www.regulations.gov website.
If you prefer to file your comment on paper, write ``DCR Workforce,
Inc.; File No. 182 3188'' on your comment and on the envelope, and mail
your comment to the following address: Federal Trade Commission, Office
of the Secretary, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite CC-5610 (Annex D),
Washington, DC 20580; or deliver your comment to the following address:
Federal Trade Commission, Office of the Secretary, Constitution Center,
400 7th Street SW, 5th Floor, Suite 5610 (Annex D), Washington, DC
20024. If possible, submit your paper comment to the Commission by
courier or overnight service.
Because your comment will be placed on the publicly accessible
website at https://www.regulations.gov, you are solely responsible for
making sure that your comment does not include any sensitive or
confidential information. In particular, your comment should not
include any sensitive personal information, such as your or anyone
else's Social Security number; date of birth; driver's license number
or other state identification number, or foreign country equivalent;
passport number; financial account number; or credit or debit card
number. You are also solely responsible for making sure that your
comment does not include any sensitive health information, such as
medical records or other individually identifiable health information.
In addition, your comment should not include any ``trade secret or any
commercial or financial information which . . . is privileged or
confidential''--as provided by Section 6(f) of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C.
46(f), and FTC Rule 4.10(a)(2), 16 CFR 4.10(a)(2)--including in
particular competitively sensitive information such as costs, sales
statistics, inventories, formulas, patterns, devices, manufacturing
processes, or customer names.
Comments containing material for which confidential treatment is
requested must be filed in paper form, must be clearly labeled
``Confidential,'' and must comply with FTC Rule 4.9(c). In particular,
the written request for confidential treatment that accompanies the
comment must include the factual and legal basis for the request, and
must identify the specific portions of the comment to be withheld from
the public record. See FTC Rule 4.9(c). Your comment will be kept
confidential only if the General Counsel grants your request in
accordance with the law and the public interest. Once your comment has
been posted on the public FTC website--as legally required by FTC Rule
4.9(b)--we cannot redact or remove your comment from the FTC website,
unless you submit a confidentiality request that meets the requirements
for such treatment under FTC Rule 4.9(c), and the General Counsel
grants that request.
Visit the FTC website at https://www.ftc.gov to read this Notice and
the news release describing it. The FTC Act and other laws that the
Commission administers permit the collection of public comments to
consider and use in this proceeding, as appropriate. The Commission
will consider all timely and responsive public comments that it
receives on or before October 9, 2019. For information on the
Commission's privacy policy, including routine uses permitted by the
Privacy Act, see https://www.ftc.gov/site-information/privacy-policy.
Analysis of Proposed Consent Order To Aid Public Comment
The Federal Trade Commission (``Commission'') has accepted, subject
to final approval, an agreement containing a consent order from DCR
Workforce, Inc. (``DCR Workforce'' or ``Respondent'').
The proposed consent order (``proposed order'') has been placed on
the public record for thirty (30) days for receipt of comments by
interested persons. Comments received during this period will become
part of the public record. After thirty (30) days, the Commission will
again review the agreement and the comments received, and will decide
whether it should withdraw from the agreement and take appropriate
action or make final the agreement's proposed order.
This matter concerns alleged false or misleading representations
that DCR Workforce made concerning its participation in the Privacy
Shield framework agreed upon by the U.S. and the European Union
(``EU''). The Privacy Shield framework allows U.S. companies to receive
personal data transferred from the EU without violating EU. The
frameworks consist of a set of principles and related requirements that
have been deemed by the European Commission as providing ``adequate''
privacy protection. The principles include notice; choice;
accountability for onward transfer; security; data integrity and
purpose limitation; access; and recourse, enforcement, and liability.
The related requirements include, for example, securing an independent
recourse mechanism to handle any disputes about how the company handles
information about EU citizens.
To participate in the frameworks, a company must comply with the
Privacy Shield principles and self-certify that compliance to the U.S.
Department of Commerce (``Commerce''). Commerce reviews companies'
self-certification applications and maintains a public website, https://www.privacyshield.gov/list, where it posts the names of companies who
have completed the requirements for certification. Companies are
required to recertify every year in order to continue benefitting from
Privacy Shield.
DCR Workforce provides workforce management software. According to
the Commission's complaint, DCR Workforce published on its website,
https://www.dcrworkforce.com, a privacy policy containing statements
related to its participation in Privacy Shield.
The Commission's proposed one-count complaint alleges that
Respondent violated Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
Specifically, the proposed complaint alleges that Respondent engaged in
a deceptive act or practice by falsely representing that it was a
certified participant in the EU-U.S. Shield Framework.
Part I of the proposed order prohibits the company from making
misrepresentations about its membership in any privacy or security
program sponsored by the government or any other self-regulatory or
standard-setting organization, including, but not limited to, the EU-
U.S. Privacy Shield framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield
framework.
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Parts II through V of the proposed order are reporting and
compliance provisions. Part II requires acknowledgement of the order
and dissemination of the order now and in the future to persons with
responsibilities relating to the subject matter of the order. Part III
ensures notification to the FTC of changes in corporate status and
mandates that the company submit an initial compliance report to the
FTC. Part IV requires the company to create certain documents relating
to its compliance with the order for twenty (20) years and to retain
those documents for a five-year period. Part V mandates that the
company make available to the FTC information or subsequent compliance
reports, as requested.
Part VI is a provision ``sun-setting'' the order after twenty (20)
years, with certain exceptions.
The purpose of this analysis is to aid public comment on the
proposed order. It is not intended to constitute an official
interpretation of the complaint or proposed order, or to modify in any
way the proposed order's terms.
By direction of the Commission.
April J. Tabor,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-19394 Filed 9-6-19; 8:45 am]
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