Chase Gunter reports:
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) is looking to toughen standards on private sector data breaches. His new bill was released the same day that Equifax announced that an additional 2.4 million Americans had their information stolen from the company, on top of the 145 million it had previously disclosed.
Lieu wants to expand the authority of the Federal Trade Commission in order to protect consumers and take action against companies who lose consumer data in security breaches.
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Related: Text of Protecting Consumer Information Act of 2018.