How to Comply With New FTC Safeguards Rule
Change focuses on notifications after a breach. Is your dealership ready to meet the requirements?
Change focuses on notifications after a breach. Is your dealership ready to meet the requirements?
There are significant challenges and hurdles approaching for dealers and their vendor partners.
Reynolds and Reynolds/Proton Dealership IT offer tools for compliance, security ahead of FTC Safeguards Rule deadline.
Does the Safeguards Rule apply to the dealership’s service drive? The short answer is ‘yes’.
The unintended consequence of the revised Safeguards Rule is that, faced with high costs, a dealer may reasonably believe that doing nothing is an attractive option. That option is attractive, but not viable.
Included in the event registration, all attendees will be eligible to sign up and take the ACE certification exam in one of four disciplines: F&I Specialist, Sales Management Specialist, Compliance Officer, and ACE’s newest offering, Safeguards Specialist.
By providing certification, regular video updates and an annual recertification exam, the ACE Safeguards Specialist Certification Program is intended to help dealers meet the new Safeguards requirements.
National Automobile Dealers Association officials have told the FTC that proposed new provisions to the Safeguards Rule may be unnecessary and could cost smaller dealers more than $400,000 in the first calendar year of enforcement.
The magazine’s legal eagle uses another dealer-targeted lawsuit to encourage dealerships to ‘walk the walk’ when it comes to their privacy policies.
Dealerships have become more technologically advanced since the federal Safeguards Rule was first enacted. Compliance expert Jim Radogna presents some tips to help dealers ensure their information safeguards policy keeps pace with today's technology.
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