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InternetNews February 2, 2007 Roy Mark |
Congress, White House Dinged on Cyber Security Lawmakers' inability to pass legislation and the administration's lack of leadership earn D's in annual report card from CSIA.  |
InternetNews December 13, 2005 Roy Mark |
Cyber Security Group Flunks Washington Neither the Bush administration nor Congress is providing significant leadership or legislation to secure the United States against cyber attacks, the Cyber Security Industry Alliance charged Tuesday.  |
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Debating Data Privacy Changes Senate Commerce Committee opens series of hearing on data broker practices.  |
InternetNews May 24, 2006 Roy Mark |
House Panel Moves on Data Breach Bill With data breaches back in the news, national legislation begins to percolate.  |
InternetNews February 9, 2007 Roy Mark |
When Is a Breach a Breach? If you think there's hope for a national data breach notification law, consider this: Congress can't decide what a breach is. Really.  |
InternetNews July 10, 2007 Roy Mark |
Many Breaches, Few ID Thefts Data breaches are frequent, but evidence of actual identity theft resulting from the breaches is limited, according to a new report by the General Accountability Office.  |
InternetNews April 13, 2005 Roy Mark |
Data Brokers Step Into Senate Panel's Fire Compliance with the California law on disclosing data breaches has resulted in a series of embarrassing public-data hijacking admissions. The Senate is now grilling data brokers and considering federal legislation.  |
InternetNews January 12, 2007 Roy Mark |
Data Breach Law Back in Senate Businesses and government agencies would have to notify consumers under certain circumstances of data breaches under legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.  |
InternetNews December 16, 2005 Roy Mark |
House Tables Data-Breach Law Talk Any hope of a U.S. House data-breach disclosure law this year fizzled away Thursday in the face of opposition from Democrats who contend the legislation lacks enforcement teeth.  |
InternetNews December 26, 2006 Roy Mark |
New Leaders, Old Issues What's Next in Tech: Democratic lawmakers may put a new emphasis on network neutrality and data-privacy issues in 2007.  |
InternetNews July 28, 2005 Roy Mark |
ID Theft Bill Wends Through Senate The proposed law calls for full disclosure to consumers when sensitive personal data is breached or lost.  |
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Roy Mark |
Groups Slam Data Breach Notification Bill A U.S. House panel effort to write a national data breach disclosure law is running into fierce opposition by consumer groups calling the legislation the "worst data security bill ever."  |
InternetNews June 11, 2010 |
Feds Reassessing Breach Notification Laws Data breaches small and large continue to plague consumers and businesses at a record pace and lawmakers at all levels of government are now considering more proactive legislation to help thwart identity theft.  |
PC Magazine July 11, 2007 Cyrus Farivar |
Closing the Loopholes on Data Theft Millions have had personal data, including credit card numbers, stolen this year. Congress is seeking to pass a stricter, nationwide law.  |
InternetNews February 6, 2007 Roy Mark |
Concealment a Crime in Latest Data Breach Bill Additional legislation calls for criminal penalties for concealing breaches and consumer notification of 'significant' breaches.  |
InternetNews May 12, 2006 Roy Mark |
Data Breach Bills Crowding Congress Seeking to make it a crime to conceal data breaches involving personal information, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Thursday jumped into the data breach debate playing out on Capitol Hill.  |
InternetNews August 4, 2006 Roy Mark |
Data Breaches And Congress A roundup of where federal data breach security laws stand.  |
InternetNews May 23, 2006 Roy Mark |
VA Data Breach Stirs Washington In the second-largest data breach on record -- and the biggest Social Security numbers breach ever - the Department of Veterans Affairs disclosed Monday approximately 26.5 million veterans are at risk of identity theft.  |
InternetNews September 23, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Turns Attention to Data Privacy The Senate Judiciary Committee expects to vote next week on legislation making it a crime for data brokers to conceal a security breach involving personal data and increasing penalties for computer fraud when the act involves personal data.  |
InternetNews September 22, 2005 Roy Mark |
Roberts Vote Could Stall Data Privacy Law Judiciary Committee may vote today on mandating national breach disclosure law.  |
InternetNews July 25, 2006 Roy Mark |
House Plans Data Breach Disclosure Vote Republicans pick weakest of several bills for full floor vote; Davis wants mandatory breach disclosure for federal agencies; Congress poised to create first national Internet database of sex offenders.  |
InternetNews May 5, 2005 Roy Mark |
How Broad a Data Breach Disclosure Law? ChoicePoint and Bank of America throw support behind national disclosure law as Congress mulls the details.  |
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Takes up Data Security Law FTC commissioners set to testify before panel that will enforce any new data privacy laws.  |
Insurance & Technology July 25, 2005 Wendy Toth |
Balanced Legislation Recent security breaches at ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, among others, have prompted public policy makers to address the collection and use of customer data.  |
InternetNews January 12, 2006 Roy Mark |
Data Breaches: New Year, Old Story Data breaches are off to a flying start this year. Congress does nothing about it, not even requiring companies to inform consumers of the breaches.  |
InternetNews June 6, 2006 Roy Mark |
Veterans Seek Billions in Data Breach Suit Veterans groups file lawsuit against VA seeking damages for veterans exposed to identity theft.  |
InternetNews May 18, 2005 Roy Mark |
Data Breach Disclosure Overkill? The FTC tells a House panel that the trigger time for data breach notifications should be carefully weighed.  |
InternetNews February 9, 2007 Roy Mark |
House Delivers Package of Privacy Bills Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced a package of bills Thursday evening aimed at identity theft, pretexting, data security and breach notifications.  |
Bank Systems & Technology November 6, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan |
2008 Data Breaches: 30 Million and Counting Roughly 30 million consumers have had sensitive personal data stolen in the 552 reported data breaches so far in 2008.  |
CIO January 2007 |
Data Breaches Cost You More Data breaches continue to become more expensive.  |
InternetNews February 22, 2007 Roy Mark |
Retailers to Hold Data-Breach Bag? Proposed legislation in Massachusetts would make retailers financially responsible for breaches of their databases that lead to consumer identity theft.  |
Bank Technology News January 2006 Glen Fest |
Data Breach Notification: States Differ On When To Sound The Alarm Legislative action on how and when banks should sound the alarm when there's been a data breach has lagged on the federal level, leading to a broad mix of state measures.  |
InternetNews March 22, 2007 Roy Mark |
Feinstein Charges Again on Data Breach Notification Bill A California senator says identity theft can't be stopped without strong congressional action.  |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2005 Rich Smith |
Banker Dons a Black Hat In written testimony to the congressional committee investigating the security of customer data, Bank of America argued that the law should not require companies to inform their customers of security breaches that put their data at risk.  |
InternetNews July 13, 2009 |
Report: 85 Percent of U.S. Businesses Breached A new report has a recommendation for organizations that fear a breach and the reporting requirements that go with it.  |
InternetNews May 6, 2005 Roy Mark |
Data Breach Law: Why Tech Doesn't Get It A national disclosure law is gaining steam but tech appears only steamed.  |
InternetNews February 8, 2010 |
The Biggest Security Breaches of 2009 There were some spectacular data breaches last year. Here's some of the best, or worst, depending on your perspective.  |
InternetNews August 9, 2010 |
New Federal Data Breach Bill Debuts in Senate The new bill is getting early support from prominent Democrats and could require enterprises meet tighter security measures and new notification rules.  |
Entrepreneur October 2005 Amanda C. Kooser |
Security Breach? A new push has begun for legislation on both the state and federal levels to deal with the issue of data security.  |
InternetNews July 15, 2005 Roy Mark |
Congress Closer to National ID Theft Law Republican lawmakers plan a committee vote on a bill requiring disclosure of both encrypted and unencrypted data breaches. The proposed bill is likely to provoke protest from the technology and financial services industries.  |
InternetNews June 23, 2006 Roy Mark |
Another Government Security Breach According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, unknown hackers may have illegally accessed a USDA database containing the names, Social Security numbers and photos of current and former agency employees.  |
U.S. CPSC October 31, 2007 |
CPSC Acting Chairman Issues Statement on Letter to Congress A response to those who called for his resignation.  |
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Roy Mark |
Data Brokers Back Federal Disclosure Law Lawmakers prod ChoicePoint, LexisNexis into supporting mandatory disclosure of security breaches.  |
InternetNews May 11, 2006 Roy Mark |
Bush Goes After ID Theft on National Level President Bush signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon creating a national Identity Theft Task Force... FTC circumspect on national data breach disclosure law... Chertoff says interoperability problems are jurisdictional, not technological...  |
InternetNews January 7, 2011 |
ITRC Seeks Full Data Breach Disclosure With major data breaches on the rise, the Identity Theft Resource Center is urging the formation of a centralized, searchable repository for the public to keep track of what institutions have seen their information compromised.  |
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Roy Mark |
Congress Reacts to Breach Onslaught BJ's Wholesale Club settles lax data protection charges while FDIC admits to data breach.  |
InternetNews June 30, 2005 Roy Mark |
Bill Targets Trafficking in Social Security Numbers Legislation requires companies to alert customers if their credit card information has been breached. The bill also prohibits requiring individuals to use Social Security numbers as their account numbers.  |
U.S. CPSC December 19, 2007 |
US Consumer Product Safety Commission Acting Chairman Nancy Nord Applauds House Vote on Landmark Consumer Product Safety Legislation The members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are congratulated for their leadership and hard work on significant product safety legislation.  |
Entrepreneur April 2007 Joshua Kurlantzick |
In With the New The shift in congressional leadership could prove a boon for small business. What might the new Congress do for you?  |
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 Aaron Dalton |
Washington's Net Change How the Democrat-controlled Congress could affect technology legislation.  |