Violet Blue reports:
A consortium of retailers, including Target and Home Depot, vowed to fight a data breach notification bill. The bill, HR 2205 from Reps. Randy Neugebauer (R-Texas) and John Carney (D-Del.), would require companies to tell customers when they’ve been hacked and would also require the encryption of data in both storage and transit. It would hold retailers to the same data-security standards as the financial sector.
Read more on engadget.
Actually, I don’t really blame them for opposing it, as it’s not a good bill. And do we really need another data breach notification bill that exempts government entities? Or that requires an SSN to trigger notification for a personal information breach? I don’t think so.