CA: Schwarzenegger vetoes data-breach bill

[Sullo <csullo () gmail com>]

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/607?ref=rss


California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a bill on Saturday that
would have prevented companies from retaining certain sensitive payment data
and spelled out what information firms would need to disclose in the event
of a breach.

The bill, identified as Assembly Bill 779, would have prohibited the storage
of "payment verification codes, ... PIN verification values, or any payment
related data that is not needed for business purposes,"

[...]



-- 

http://www.cirt.net     |      http://www.osvdb.org/

_______________________________________________
Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org)
http://attrition.org/dataloss

Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring
solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your
traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out!
http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml