One might somewhat pessimistically insert “and is unlikely in 2015… and 2016… and…” Eric Chabrow reports on how despite its importance and the number of massive data breaches reported in the past year, a federal data breach notification law is unlikely to pass this year. No surprise there, as he notes the gap between what businesses…
Category: Federal
Obama orders feds to adopt credit-card technology limiting identity theft
Eric Garcia reports: In an effort to combat identify theft, President Obama on Friday signed an executive order requiring government-issued credit cards to use “chip-and-pin” technology. Read more on MarketWatch. You can access the full text of the Executive Order here. It also includes helping ID theft victims remediate more quickly.
Japan’s gov’t mulls beefing up regulations on exchange of personal data among database firms
Mainichi reports: The government is considering tightening regulations on the exchange of personal data among database firms, after a systems engineer allegedly stole a massive amount of customer information from correspondence education provider Benesse Holdings Inc. and sold it to three database companies. According to investigative sources, over 200 million customer data entries were leaked…
Politicians Cynically Using JP Morgan Hack To Try To Pass Laws To Diminish Your Privacy
Mike Masnick writes: So, as you probably heard last week, JP Morgan revealed more details of how it had been hacked, noting that the number of households impacted shot up to 76 million, thus impacting a pretty large percentage of Americans. The hack involved getting access to customer names, addresses, phone numbers and emails. It doesn’t…
CUNA Launches Data Security Advocacy Site
Nicholas Ballasy reports: CUNA president/CEO Jim Nussle announced the launch of StopTheDataBreaches.com, which consumers can use to call on Congress to hold retailers accountable for data breaches. The website urges Congress to take action by passing data security legislation. Consumers are able to write their legislators through the website with the option to use the form letter…
Germany Issues Revised Draft Cybersecurity Law
Hunton & Williams write: On August 19, 2014, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior published a revised draft cybersecurity law (the “Draft Law”). An earlier version of the law was published in March 2013. The Draft Law is intended to serve as a cornerstone of Germany’s recently-announced digital agenda. “Critical Infrastructure” and Security Requirements The…