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Two New Data Breach Bills in 2007
Posted on Jan 13, 2007 by Tom Fragala
Consumer Affairs has a good article about the first two updated data security bills bubbling up from the new Democrat-controlled Congress. They are the Social Security Number Misuse Prevention Act and the Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act. I have not had time to analyze these and I won't have time to for a while. But please submit comments with your own opinions.
The Misuse Prevention Act contains exemptions for law enforcement, public health agencies, and businesses to collect and store Social Security numbers for credit and fraud checks, leading critics to say that the bill has too many loopholes to be effective.
Marc Rotenberg, director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), said the bill's (Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act) current draft "contains too many exceptions and too few rights for Americans whose personal information has been improperly released."
Filed under: Data Breach, Identity Theft, Privacy
Tags: data security, data theft, security
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