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Industry Giants Lobby to Kill Pro-Consumer Data-Breach Legislation
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 02:28:38 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via the C|Net "surveill@nce st@te" Blog. [snip] In a direct slap in the face to consumers, tech industry giants including Microsoft, AT&T, and Verizon are frantically engaged in an effort to kill pro-consumer provisions in a data breach notification bill currently being considered by the Indiana State Senate. The bill would require that the state attorney general act as a single point of contact for data breaches. Any company that suffered a breach impacting one or more Indiana consumers would be required to notify the AG's office. The bill would also make Indiana the only state in the country to to require the attorney general to post a copy of each report to its Web site--so that consumers, members of the press, and academics would have a single place to go to in order to find out about data breaches. At a State Senate committee meeting this morning, lobbyist after lobbyist criticized the provision. [snip] More: http://www.cnet.com/8301-13739_1-9865076-46.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHqRrpq1pz9mNUZTMRArDZAKCb8rrUwtPwn8XKDfs/MSH11v60HgCgwmij 9LMo1Fsdo0Zl5jnbAgEcQSc= =IDLo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
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