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Christie signs law requiring health insurance companies to encrypt personal information

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Dissent

Susan K. Livio reports:

Health insurance companies will be required to protect client information by encrypting the data, under legislation Gov. Chris Christie signed into law today.

The bill follows a series of incidents involving stolen laptops containing policyholder information protected only by user passwords.

Read more on NJ.com.


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