Increasingly, clients of CPA firms impose confidentiality agreements as a precondition to engaging the firm to perform professional services. These may appear in the form of a separate nondisclosure ...

A survey from the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) asked state-registered small and mid-sized investment adviser firms how they use websites and technology, such as tablets ...

Amrita M. Narine and Reshma Shah write: Until the courts adopt a single approach toward border searches of electronic devices, attorneys need to be even more careful when crossing the border with ...

Customers rely on brokerages, advisors, accountants and even insurance agents to keep their information safe, secure and confidential. Well before the stay-at-home mandates of the pandemic, state ...

A newly proposed AICPA ethics rule would clarify that certain reviews of a tax practice are included in the exceptions to the AICPA Professional Standards prohibition on disclosing confidential client ...

One of the reasons we hear from financial advisors who hesitate or don’t participate in testimonial marketing is the fear of exposing their clients’ information, and especially concerns that clients ...

Two recent ethics opinions, one from the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility (the “ABA Opinion”) and one from the New York State Bar Association Committee on Professional ...

Bank staffers are selling client data in back-door deals with online fraudsters — helping to facilitate sophisticated scams that target the live savings of Americans, according to a report. These bank ...