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InternetNews April 13, 2005 Roy Mark	Data Brokers Step Into Senate Panel's Fire Compliance with the California law on disclosing data breaches has resulted in a series of embarrassing public-data hijacking admissions. The Senate is now grilling data brokers and considering federal legislation.
InternetNews July 28, 2005 Roy Mark	ID Theft Bill Wends Through Senate The proposed law calls for full disclosure to consumers when sensitive personal data is breached or lost.
InternetNews May 12, 2006 Roy Mark	Data Breach Bills Crowding Congress Seeking to make it a crime to conceal data breaches involving personal information, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Thursday jumped into the data breach debate playing out on Capitol Hill.
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate Takes up Data Security Law FTC commissioners set to testify before panel that will enforce any new data privacy laws.
InternetNews August 4, 2006 Roy Mark	Data Breaches And Congress A roundup of where federal data breach security laws stand.
InternetNews May 24, 2006 Roy Mark	House Panel Moves on Data Breach Bill With data breaches back in the news, national legislation begins to percolate.
InternetNews February 25, 2005 Roy Mark	ChoicePoint ID Theft Stirs Up Congress When lawmakers return to work next week, private data protection legislation will be all the rage.
InternetNews September 23, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate Turns Attention to Data Privacy The Senate Judiciary Committee expects to vote next week on legislation making it a crime for data brokers to conceal a security breach involving personal data and increasing penalties for computer fraud when the act involves personal data.
InternetNews February 6, 2007 Roy Mark	Concealment a Crime in Latest Data Breach Bill Additional legislation calls for criminal penalties for concealing breaches and consumer notification of 'significant' breaches.
InternetNews June 16, 2005 Roy Mark	Congress Reacts to Breach Onslaught BJ's Wholesale Club settles lax data protection charges while FDIC admits to data breach.
InternetNews September 22, 2005 Roy Mark	Roberts Vote Could Stall Data Privacy Law Judiciary Committee may vote today on mandating national breach disclosure law.
InternetNews January 12, 2007 Roy Mark	Data Breach Law Back in Senate Businesses and government agencies would have to notify consumers under certain circumstances of data breaches under legislation introduced by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
InternetNews December 16, 2005 Roy Mark	House Tables Data-Breach Law Talk Any hope of a U.S. House data-breach disclosure law this year fizzled away Thursday in the face of opposition from Democrats who contend the legislation lacks enforcement teeth.
InternetNews July 15, 2005 Roy Mark	Congress Closer to National ID Theft Law Republican lawmakers plan a committee vote on a bill requiring disclosure of both encrypted and unencrypted data breaches. The proposed bill is likely to provoke protest from the technology and financial services industries.
InternetNews April 12, 2005 Roy Mark	Feinstein Tightens ID Theft Proposal California Democrat calls for national notification law just before Senate hearing.
InternetNews May 5, 2005 Roy Mark	How Broad a Data Breach Disclosure Law? ChoicePoint and Bank of America throw support behind national disclosure law as Congress mulls the details.
InternetNews March 22, 2007 Roy Mark	Feinstein Charges Again on Data Breach Notification Bill A California senator says identity theft can't be stopped without strong congressional action.
InternetNews March 30, 2006 Roy Mark	Data-Breach Disclosure Bill Passes House Panel A House panel approved a bill requiring data brokers to inform consumers of breaches when reasonable risk of ID theft exists.
InternetNews July 10, 2007 Roy Mark	Many Breaches, Few ID Thefts Data breaches are frequent, but evidence of actual identity theft resulting from the breaches is limited, according to a new report by the General Accountability Office.
InternetNews February 9, 2007 Roy Mark	When Is a Breach a Breach? If you think there's hope for a national data breach notification law, consider this: Congress can't decide what a breach is. Really.
PC World November 2005 Alan Stafford	Privacy in Peril With identity thieves targeting big consumer databases, your data isn't just up for sale -- it could be up for grabs.
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Roy Mark	Groups Slam Data Breach Notification Bill A U.S. House panel effort to write a national data breach disclosure law is running into fierce opposition by consumer groups calling the legislation the "worst data security bill ever."
InternetNews June 30, 2005 Roy Mark	Bill Targets Trafficking in Social Security Numbers Legislation requires companies to alert customers if their credit card information has been breached. The bill also prohibits requiring individuals to use Social Security numbers as their account numbers.
InternetNews May 18, 2005 Roy Mark	Data Breach Disclosure Overkill? The FTC tells a House panel that the trigger time for data breach notifications should be carefully weighed.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Dean Foust	Keeping A Grip On Identity How to hold info brokers accountable for security without fouling up commerce.
InternetNews September 1, 2005 Roy Mark	States Lead Congress on Breach Protections While federal lawmakers dither on data-breach legislation to protect against identity theft, states take matters into their own hands.
InternetNews March 11, 2005 Roy Mark	Staggered Start For ChoicePoint Hearing Senate ID theft hearing postponed but Schumer and Corzine promise new privacy legislation.
InternetNews February 9, 2007 Roy Mark	House Delivers Package of Privacy Bills Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced a package of bills Thursday evening aimed at identity theft, pretexting, data security and breach notifications.
Insurance & Technology July 25, 2005 Wendy Toth	Balanced Legislation Recent security breaches at ChoicePoint and LexisNexis, among others, have prompted public policy makers to address the collection and use of customer data.
InternetNews April 10, 2006 Roy Mark	Security Group Calls on Congress Public confidence in e-commerce will erode if Congress does not step forward and pass a meaningful national data breach disclosure law this year, according to the Cyber Security Industry Alliance.
InternetNews May 6, 2005 Roy Mark	Data Breach Law: Why Tech Doesn't Get It A national disclosure law is gaining steam but tech appears only steamed.
InternetNews May 23, 2006 Roy Mark	VA Data Breach Stirs Washington In the second-largest data breach on record -- and the biggest Social Security numbers breach ever - the Department of Veterans Affairs disclosed Monday approximately 26.5 million veterans are at risk of identity theft.
Bank Technology News January 2006 Glen Fest	Data Breach Notification: States Differ On When To Sound The Alarm Legislative action on how and when banks should sound the alarm when there's been a data breach has lagged on the federal level, leading to a broad mix of state measures.
InternetNews March 15, 2005 Roy Mark	Data Brokers Back Federal Disclosure Law Lawmakers prod ChoicePoint, LexisNexis into supporting mandatory disclosure of security breaches.
InternetNews June 1, 2007 Roy Mark	ChoicePoint Settles With 44 States in Data Losses Data broker ChoicePoint agrees to pay $500,000 and to strengthen data protection measures.
InternetNews March 24, 2006 Roy Mark	House Panel Preps ID Theft Law Republicans and Democrats have reached a compromise on legislation mandating data brokers disclose to consumers certain unencrypted breaches of their personal information.
InternetNews June 20, 2007 Roy Mark	Getting More Money to ID Theft Victims FTC sends another 2,400 reimbursement forms to consumers victimized by ChoicePoint's 2004 data breach.
InternetNews February 25, 2005 Erin Joyce	Tech Needs to Opt-In For ID Protection It's up to the tech industry to improve consumers' data privacy because even if Congress acts, it won't have much of an effect.
InternetNews June 11, 2010	Feds Reassessing Breach Notification Laws Data breaches small and large continue to plague consumers and businesses at a record pace and lawmakers at all levels of government are now considering more proactive legislation to help thwart identity theft.
InternetNews June 6, 2006 Roy Mark	Veterans Seek Billions in Data Breach Suit Veterans groups file lawsuit against VA seeking damages for veterans exposed to identity theft.
InternetNews May 17, 2005 Roy Mark	Swindle: 'Somebody Has Got to Pay' The Federal Trade Commission says corporate boards haven't been paying enough attention to data protection.
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Roy Mark	House Panel Approves Data Breach Bill Democrats protest that the Data Accountability and Trust Act will have little or no effect.
PC Magazine July 11, 2007 Cyrus Farivar	Closing the Loopholes on Data Theft Millions have had personal data, including credit card numbers, stolen this year. Congress is seeking to pass a stricter, nationwide law.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2005 Rich Smith	Banker Dons a Black Hat In written testimony to the congressional committee investigating the security of customer data, Bank of America argued that the law should not require companies to inform their customers of security breaches that put their data at risk.
InternetNews January 16, 2007 Roy Mark	Bills Target ID Theft Ease U.S. Senators have a simple solution to put a stop to identity theft: ban phone companies from selling personal information, bar Internet sites from selling the records and prohibit the sale or display of Social Security numbers without an individual's consent.
InternetNews January 9, 2009 Richard Adhikari	New Data Breach, Privacy Bills in Congress If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
InternetNews May 6, 2005 Tim Gray	How Much is Too Much Data Loss? Congress returned this week to a burgeoning issue likely to concern the financial health of millions of Americans: What can be done about skyrocketing incidents of identity theft and data loss?
InternetNews January 25, 2006 Roy Mark	Capitol Hill Roiling Over Online Phone Records The furor over online data brokers selling personal telephone data continues to roil on Capitol Hill with a House panel now demanding to know when the Federal Communications Commission will complete its investigation.
InternetNews May 11, 2006 Roy Mark	Bush Goes After ID Theft on National Level President Bush signed an executive order Wednesday afternoon creating a national Identity Theft Task Force... FTC circumspect on national data breach disclosure law... Chertoff says interoperability problems are jurisdictional, not technological...
CRM June 1, 2005 Marshall Lager	Fear and Loathing in the Database A company's CRM system might make it vulnerable to hackers, but with risk comes opportunity.