Privacy Experts Present at the Law School

February 3, 2006

January 31, 2006, Kirk Herath, L’94, chief privacy officer and associate general counsel at Nationwide Insurance, and Lori Mininger, counsel at Nationwide Insurance visited Capital University Law School as experts on legal privacy issues.

As part of this Corporate Business Law Association (CBLA) sponsored event, Herath and Mininger discussed how the field of privacy has formed, as well as how they became involved in privacy law. Evolving law required corporations to develop privacy statements, while corporations already needed policies governing the protection and sharing of data.

Herath was a corporate lobbyist who gained a law degree at Capital University Law School. His knowledge of the law, coupled with his legislative know-how, put him in the “right place at the right time with the right experience.” Mininger used her legal degree and writing skills to position herself as a person who could handle the developing issues of privacy law.

Additionally, Herath spoke to students, faculty and staff on the five main privacy laws affecting corporations: the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Health Insurance Portability & Accounting Act (HIPAA) and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPAA). He discussed the definitions of privacy as it applies to corporations, how laws govern marketing (e.g., the Do Not Call list), how state laws address privacy issues, how laws address security breaches, and the compliance tools which are available (e.g., privacy statements, audits, and privacy training).