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Re: Personal Info From PA. Welfare Rolls Stolen
From: "Dale Jordan" <jordantd () comcast net>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 07:19:41 -0500
Hi Rodney, Not all states have the privacy laws enacted. The link below describes the Pennsylvania law that went into effect in 2006: http://www.privsecblog.com/archives/state-legislation-pennsylvania-becomes-2 2nd-state-to-enact-a-data-breach-disclosure-law.html Thank you, Dale Jordan _____ From: dataloss-bounces () attrition org [mailto:dataloss-bounces () attrition org] On Behalf Of Rodney Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 8:21 PM To: dataloss () attrition org Subject: Re: [Dataloss] Personal Info From PA. Welfare Rolls Stolen On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 18:50 -0600, Henry Brown wrote: The Department of Public Welfare began mailing letters Wednesday warning the recipients to take steps to protect themselves from identity theft, agency spokeswoman Anne Bale said. This strikes me as odd and I have a couple of questions for the group. 1. If your data is lost and there is a clear "at fault" party as seems to be the case here (the data was unencrypted) they isn't the "at fault party supposed to provide ID theft protection? Is that a law or just something done to reduce damages should they ever be sued over release of personally identifiable information without informed consent? 2. If it is welfare rolls, then these people can't afford to do this on their own, so again why isn't the state setting this up for them? Rodney Wise
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