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Illinois Attorney General seeks stronger data breach bill

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dissent

Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently drafted legislation to strengthen the state’s Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA). Originally passed in 2005 at Attorney General Madigan’s direction, PIPA made Illinois among the first states in the country to require entities that suffer a data breach to notify Illinois residents if the breached information included residents’ drivers’ license…

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NY: Two-Factor Authentication May Be Coming to a Bank Near You

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Dissent

David Smyth of Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP writes: When I was at the SEC and online broker-dealers’ customers were the victims of hacking incidents, I used to wonder, why don’t the broker-dealers require multi-factor authentication to gain access to accounts? It was a silly question. I knew the answer. Multi-factor authentication is a pain and…

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Two Wyoming Bills Amending the State’s Breach Notification Statute Are Headed to the Governor

Posted on February 28, 2015 by Dissent

Hunton & Williams write: On February 23, 2015, the Wyoming Senate approved a bill (S.F.36) that adds several data elements to the definition of “personal identifying information” in the state’s data breach notification statute. The amended definition will expand Wyoming’s breach notification law to cover certain online account access credentials, unique biometric data, health insurance information, medical…

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States Respond to Recent Breaches with Encryption Legislation

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Dissent

Scott Weinstein of McDermott Will & Emery writes: In the wake of recent breaches of personally identifiable information (PII) suffered by health insurance companies located in their states, the New Jersey Legislature passed, and the Connecticut General Assembly will consider legislation that requires health insurance companies offering health benefits within these states to encrypt certain types of PII, including social…

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Say What? Required contents of notice in data breach notifications

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Dissent

Fer O’Neil did some comparisons of state laws on the content of notices. His write-up of what he found is well worth reading. Here’s a snippet from it: The first metric I looked at was the number of states and territories that had some required content of notice. I was a little surprised that 63% (31…

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Wyoming Senate committee tackles data privacy bills

Posted on January 24, 2015 by Dissent

Wow. The Wyoming Senate has really been busy considering a number of data breach and privacy bills. James Chilton reports: Legislators began discussing Thursday two bills designed to force businesses affected by data breaches to inform consumers and respond in specific ways. Senate Files 35 and 36 aim to create new, 21st century definitions of…

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