Perkins Coie has compiled an updated resource (141 pages) of state data breach notification laws:
Category: State/Local
ID theft bill moving through Fla. legislature
As I’ve been reporting for a while now, Florida is an absolute hotbed of ID theft for tax refund fraud schemes. Yet state-level prosecutors are hampered by a law that requires them to prove intent to use/misuse information if someone is found in possession of others’ identity information. Of course, the federal prosecutors are not…
UT: Security breach bill passes the House
Antone Clark reports: State lawmakers are taking action to prevent another breach of sensitive data following the inadvertent release of almost 800,000 names in 2012. The House voted unanimously to approve legislation establishing guidelines for how information for Medicaid and CHIP recipients will be handled and also pushing the state to actively identify industry best…
Maine League Testifies On Breach Notice Bill
CUSystem writes: The Maine Credit Union League and representatives from Maine’s credit unions recently testified on two bills about breach notices and student-loan insurance bills, before two separate state legislative committees in Augusta. L.D. 158 requires that notice of a security breach must be made no later than 30 days after discovery of the breach…
PA: Pileggi pushes for update to vague law on personal data theft
Melissa Daniels reports: Back in 2007, the theft of several state computers jeopardized the personal information of as many as 400,000 Pennsylvanians. Desktop computers from the Department of Public Welfare were taken from offices in Harrisburg and Philadelphia. Then, a laptop issued to the Department of Aging was stolen from a private residence. There’s no telling what someone might…
Bill advances to help prevent state data breaches
Sometimes the personal connection to a breach does get legislators off the dime. Lee Davidson reports: The wife of Sen. Stuart Reid, R-Ogden, was among 780,000 victims of a Utah health data security breach last March. On Wednesday, Reid passed through the Senate a bill designed to help prevent such breaches in the future. SB20,…