“As more and more of our personal information is collected and stored online and on computers, we need to ensure that the businesses storing this information are keeping it safe and giving us quick warning if it falls into the wrong hands.”
Senator Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and chairman of the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Insurance.
Senator John Rockefeller (D-W.V.) and Senator Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) have introduced The Data Security and Breach Notification Act. The goal of this is to make sure that any firm that collects and stores personal information must then be responsible for making sure that they have “reasonable security policies and procedures” put into place that will prevent leaks or breaches.
Kenneth Corbin, Associate Editor at InternetNews.com, gives his account of this bill, and what’s happening with it, in this recent article.
It’s interesting that there have been two similar bills introduced, but those bills never made it past the senate floor.
With all the threats and breaches we’ve been seeing, coming from outside organizations AND inside them, you’ll want to give Corbin’s article a read and see where your tax dollars (if you’re in the US) are going.
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What is even scarier on the same topic is how Congress is handling regulating government employees on peer to peer use on government computers, a pure disconnect here with lack of consumer digital IT knowledge.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2010/03/breaking…
Read your post – ooooph. HUGE disconnect.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/semicolon
We have had such a law in the UK for some time now and no surprise the number of report data breaches has soared. The old mantra, if you cannot measure it you cannot manage it comes to mind here so I see this as a good thing. But not sure anything will change in the US in an election year?