California continues to lead the way in protecting consumers whose data have been breached. By a vote of 37-0-1 last week, the Senate passed S.B. 46, a bill introduced by Senator Ellen Corbett. The bill amends existing law to expand required notification to situations involving access to an online account. The law would still incorporate…
Category: Breach Laws
New guidance on data breaches in Belgium
I’ve been looking for an English language report on the new breach guidelines in Belgium and finally found one. Cédrine Morlière and Ludo Deklerck of Bird & Bird write: When the data breach results in a “public incident” (when a data breach results in a public leakage of private data), according to the guidance, the…
Pennsylvania on data breach – shoot first, ask questions later
Blaine Kimrey of Lathrop & Gage LLP has a commentary on a breach notification law that passed the PA Senate. As noted previously on this blog, the bill extends existing data breach notification responsibilities to state agencies, but also requires notification of those affected within seven days. Kimrey writes: After a series of embarrassing governmental…
Missouri bill could require notification if data breach
Cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org. Associated Press reports: State agencies could be required to notify Missourians if personal data such as concealed gun permits and credit card numbers are accessed by someone who is not authorized to have that information. The proposal comes from Republican House member Kurt Bahr, of St. Charles. It comes after the Missouri…
AU: Supplementary Policy on Data Breach Notification Legislation Submitted by APF
The Australian Privacy Foundation has submitted additional comments on proposed data breach notification regulations in Australia. You can read their supplement here. Not surprisingly, I remain in substantive agreement with their recommendations.
AU: Data breach notification bill revealed
Darren Pauli reports: The Australian Government’s plans for a data breach notification scheme have been shared with a small number of key stakeholders as a draft exposure bill, marked as Confidential. The Exposure Draft Privacy Amendment (Privacy Alerts) Bill 2013, obtained by SC, was the strongest sign to date that current Government plans to bring mandatory data…