Rob O’Neill reports: The New Zealand government is expected to introduce a rewrite of privacy laws into Parliament next year, but one security expert says the proposals are imprecise and don’t go far enough. Trend Micro’s senior security architect Peter Benson says data breach disclosure laws are long overdue and will bring New Zealand into…
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AU: Govt refuses to support data breach notification bill
Allie Coyne reports: The Coalition Government has refused to back a reinvigorated bill that would force companies to notify customers of a data breach, saying while it agrees with the concept in principle, the proposed legislation needs more work. In March this year Labor Senator Lisa Singh re-introduced the lapsed Privacy Alerts Bill, which failed to…
Cantor’s Defeat: Impact on Breach Law
Eric Chabrow reports: Kentucky became the 47th state to enact a breach notification law last week. And while a national law superseding the widely varying state statutes is long overdue, the primary election defeat of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor makes passing such a bill tougher. Read more on GovInfoSecurity.com.
New Zealand to Require Breach Notice, Strengthen Cross-Border Transfer
Murray Griffin reports: The New Zealand government May 28 released a fact sheet detailing its intended proposals to update the country’s data protection regime, including the introduction of new controls on cross-border disclosures and a requirement that companies and public agencies provide data breach notification. Read more on Bloomberg BNA.
FTC told to disclose the data security standards it uses for data security enforcement actions
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) can be compelled to disclose details of the data security standards it uses to pursue enforcement action against companies that suffer data breaches, the agency’s chief administrative law judge ruled Thursday. The decision came in response to a motion filed by LabMD, a now-defunct medical laboratory that…
Breaking down the court’s decision in FTC v. Wyndham Worldwide
Here’s another commentary/analysis of Judge Salas’s ruling on Wyndham’s motion to dismss that is worth noting here, by the law firm of Covington & Burling: They write, in part: The FTC’s data-security authority is still in jeopardy. Although the FTC is the plaintiff in this case, it is really Wyndham that is on the offensive. If…