Trevor Stokes reports: Credit unions and retailers reacted differently Wednesday to two proposed Alabama bills that would require businesses to notify residents when personal information accessible by computer has been breached. The companion bills, introduced this week by Rep. Tammy Irons, D-Florence, and Sen. Roger Bedford, D-Russellville, are aimed to protect consumers against personal data…
Category: Legislation
Bill: Missouri businesses must disclose security breaches
Missouri businesses would be required to notify consumers when their personal or financial information is compromised in security breaches, under a bill that received initial approval Wednesday from the Missouri Senate. Sen. Scott Rupp, R-Wentzville, sponsored Senate Bill 207 as a way to inform consumers of security breaches that could result in identity theft or…
Congress heard us! (commentary)
I’m first working my way through the provisions in the stimulus bill that relate to breaches and notifications. One of the recommendations that I and other privacy advocates had made was central notification and disclosure on a publicly available web site. They heard us. Here’s part of the new law: (3) NOTICE TO SECRETARY- Notice…
MA: Businesses look to restart data security rule process
Michael P. Norton of the State House News Service reports: A coalition featuring some of the biggest businesses in the nation called on the Patrick administration Thursday to again delay implementation of regulations to protect against identity theft, saying the pending rules are unworkable and will hurt job creation. […] The letter was signed by…
Comments on Senator Feinstein’s bill, S. 139
Earlier this week, Senator Feinstein grabbed the privacy headlines when she reintroduced the same breach notification bill that she has introduced in every session of Congress for the past few years. Like me, the bill has not improved with age. S.139 is intended to provide a national “floor” on data breach notifications for breaches involving…
Data Privacy Day 2009
January 28 is the second international Data Privacy Day in the U.S., Canada, and over two dozen European countries. In Congress, Rep. David Price of North Carolina has introduced a resolution supporting the designation of January 28, 2009 as National Data Privacy Day. To date, the bill has six co-sponsors: Rep Barton, Joe [TX-6] Rep…