Senate Panel Approves Data-breach Notification Bills

[Jake Kouns <jkouns () opensecurityfoundation org>]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/181549/senate_panel_approves_databreach_notification_bills.html

Senate Panel Approves Data-breach Notification Bills

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee has approved two bills that would
require organizations with data breaches to report them to potential
victims.

The Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to approve both the Personal
Data Privacy and Security Act and the Data Breach Notification Act by
large majorities.

The Data Breach Notification Act, sponsored by Senator Dianne
Feinstein, a California Democrat, would require U.S. agencies and
businesses that engage in interstate commerce to report data breaches
to victims whose personal information "has been, or is reasonably
believed to have been, accessed, or acquired."

Feinstein's bill would also require agencies and businesses to report
large data breaches to the U.S. Secret Service

The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act would also require that
organizations that maintain personal data give notice to potential
victims and law-enforcement authorities when they have a data breach.
It would increase criminal penalties for electronic-data theft and
allow people to have access to, and correct, personal data held by
commercial data brokers.

The second bill, sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy, the Judiciary
Committee chairman and a Vermont Democrat, would also require the U.S.
government to establish rules protecting privacy and security when it
uses information from commercial data brokers.

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