Apollo Services, Inc. Exhibiting at Business Expo Petaluma

Join Apollo Services Inc. and hundreds of other local businesses for the 21st annual Petaluma Business Expo at the Petaluma Community Center (320 N. McDowell BLVD).

Come enjoy this Petaluma tradition, which includes over 100 exhibitors, food samples from Whole Foods Market, Petaluma restaurants and caterers, as well as the usual plethora of promotional handouts.

Time Thursday, October 7 · 3:30pm - 7:00pm

Location Petaluma Community Center

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New CA Law Protecting Consumers from Off Shoring of Data

Apollo Services, Inc.'s president, Eric Rinsky, appeared before the California State Assembly on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 in Sacramento to testify as an expert witness on behalf of Senator Roderick Wright in support of bill SB909. The bill was signed yesterday and will go into effect on January 1, 2011.

Apollo Services Inc. supports this bill and it's purpose of identifying background screening companies who off shore their data to call centers overseas because it is more cost effective. Apollo Services Inc. takes every measure to protect their clients and does not off shore data overseas.

Per attorney Pam Devata of Seyfarth and Shaw:

The Governor signed and secretary of state chaptered SB 909 yesterday.

In it's final form, the bill will require a person who procures or causes to be prepared an investigative consumer report for employment purposes to provide a consumer with the Internet Web site address or telephone number of the investigative consumer reporting agency where the consumer may find additional information about the agency's privacy practices.

This bill will also require an investigative consumer reporting agency to conspicuously post on its primary Internet Web site information describing its privacy practices with respect to its preparation and processing of investigative consumer reports, or, if it does not have an Internet Web site, to mail a written copy of the privacy statement to consumers upon request. The bill also makes an investigative consumer reporting agency liable to a consumer who is harmed by any unauthorized access of the consumer's personally identifiable information, act, or omission that occurs outside the United States or its territories, as specified.

It will go into effect January 1, 2011.