Data Handling Regulations ?

["Al" <macwheel99 () wowway com>]

http://www.govinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=1867
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Congress should consider enacting legislation allowing the federal
government to regulate how the private sector handles and stores data to
battle the increasing problem of data breaches, says the chairwoman of a
House panel that has jurisdiction over cybersecurity. 

Rep. Yvette Clarke, the Brooklyn, N.Y., Democrat who chairs the House
Homeland Security Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity and
Science and Technology, says she hopes to hold hearings on what she calls
the National Data Breach Law either later this year or in early 2010. 

[..]

Sensitive to the concerns of business about regulation, Clarke said the
private sector must be involved in crafting data regulation, and sees her
panel or the full Homeland Security Committee holding a series of hearings
on the topic to solicit the views of government officials, business leaders
and academics.

[..]

The congresswoman said it is too early to provide details on the proposed
legislation - that's the purpose of hearings, she noted - but said the
legislation should cover the way data is retrieved, transmitted, intercepted
and stored.

 

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Al Macintyre

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