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…
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Pointer: State Laws Require Secure Personal Data
Nick Akerman and Melissa J. Krasnow have an article in The National Law Journal: Connecticut, Massachusetts and Nevada recently enacted laws requiring businesses to institute certain compliance measures to secure personal information that can be used to perpetrate identity theft. The Massachusetts law applies to a business located anywhere in the United States that stores…
CA: Lawmaker: Consumers need details in data breach warnings
Elinor Mills of Cnet reports: Six years after California enacted the country’s first data breach notification law, many state residents have received letters warning them that their data was exposed by a breach but usually they don’t know how or how long, experts said at a privacy conference on Friday. That would change with the…
Massachusetts extends deadline on data security rules again
Jaikumar Vijayan reports: For the second time in three months, Massachusetts officials have pushed back the deadline for companies to comply with a controversial set of data security regulations that the state announced last September. In addition to the deadline extension, which was announced late Thursday , the state’s Office of Consumer Affairs and Business…
PA: Legislation aims at data breach notification
Alex Rose: State Sen. Dominic Pileggi, R-9, of Chester, recently re-introduced legislation that would require state agencies to notify the public about data breaches involving personal information within one week. Current state law only allows for notification “without unreasonable delay.” Pileggi, the Senate majority leader, introduced similar legislation last year. That bill passed the Senate…
Washington state CUs introduce data breach bill
In the wake of the Heartland Payment Systems data breach announced last week, Washington state’s credit unions once again have introduced legislation to encourage financial institutions to take “extraordinary proactive steps” to protect consumers from identity theft and financial fraud after a breach. Receiving its first hearing before the Full House Financial Institutions and Insurance…