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New York Shield Act
Effective March 21st, 2020
The SHIELD Act requires employers and businesses in possession of New York residents' private information to "develop, implement, and maintain reasonable safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of the private information."
Protect Your Clients, Protect Yourself
Five-Step Solution
1
Take responsibility or assign an individual or individuals to be responsible for safeguards in your office and a privacy policy under the FTC Financial Privacy Rule.
2
Assess the risks to personally identifiable information in your office, including your operations, physical environment, computer systems and employees, if applicable. Make a list of all the locations where you keep taxpayer/personal information.
3
Write a plan of how you will safeguard taxpayer/personal information. Put appropriate safeguards in place and reporting mechanisms for incidents in your state and your clients states.
4
Use only service providers who have policies in place to also maintain an adequate level of information protection defined by the FTC Safeguards Rule.
5
Monitor, evaluate and adjust your security programs as your business or circumstances change, as well as incorporate data back-up to be able to have business continuity in a disaster.