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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 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 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 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 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 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 August 4, 2006 Roy Mark	Data Breaches And Congress A roundup of where federal data breach security laws stand.
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 May 11, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate Debating Data Privacy Changes Senate Commerce Committee opens series of hearing on data broker practices.
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.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 3, 2011	Senate Judiciary Clears Patent Reform Bill Panel renews longstanding push to overhaul nation's patent system, with a litany of amendments to appear should the measure receive consideration of the full Senate.
InternetNews March 8, 2007 Roy Mark	Gates' Washington Trip a Privacy Affair Congress should pass 'milestone' national uniform privacy standard says Microsoft chairman.
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.
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.
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 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 November 25, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Verizon Staff Fired After Peek at Obama's Calls The Verizon Wireless employees who accessed President-elect Barack Obama's records without authorization have been fired, according to news reports.
InternetNews January 9, 2009 Richard Adhikari	New Data Breach, Privacy Bills in Congress If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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 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 July 25, 2006 Roy Mark	House Plans Data Breach Disclosure Vote Republicans pick weakest of several bills for full floor vote; Davis wants mandatory breach disclosure for federal agencies; Congress poised to create first national Internet database of sex offenders.
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.
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 February 22, 2007 Roy Mark	Retailers to Hold Data-Breach Bag? Proposed legislation in Massachusetts would make retailers financially responsible for breaches of their databases that lead to consumer identity theft.
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 March 15, 2005 Roy Mark	Data Brokers Back Federal Disclosure Law Lawmakers prod ChoicePoint, LexisNexis into supporting mandatory disclosure of security breaches.
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.
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 February 28, 2005 Paul Shread	Bank's Tape Loss Puts Spotlight on Backup Practices Senators consider legislation after Bank of America's admission that the company lost data tapes containing federal workers' customer and account information.
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.
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 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 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.
InternetNews July 19, 2007 Roy Mark	Patent Reform Bill Moves Forward in U.S. House In a unanimous voice vote, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee this week endorsed patent-reform legislation, which the tech industry has been pushing for decades.
InternetNews June 12, 2007 Roy Mark	Republicans Seek Delay in Patent Reform Bill Two days before a scheduled Senate Judiciary Committee markup of the Patent Reform Act of 2007, four Republican members of the panel are seeking a delay in the vote. The lawmakers said the controversial measure deserves further hearings.
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 April 12, 2005 Roy Mark	Feinstein Tightens ID Theft Proposal California Democrat calls for national notification law just before Senate hearing.
InternetNews April 12, 2005 Tim Gray	310,000 Exposed by LexisNexis Data Breach Company estimates data breach affected 10 times the U.S. residents as originally reported.
PC Magazine July 10, 2003 Sebastian Rupley	California's Two-Fisted Privacy Stance A new state identity-theft law actually extends far beyond the state.
InternetNews November 18, 2010	Online Piracy Bill Clears Senate Judiciary By a unanimous vote, the Senate Judiciary Committee reports out the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, while digital-rights groups cry foul.
InternetNews June 22, 2005 Tim Gray	Fronting a Fix on Data Breaches Everyone's pointing fingers and looking for answers as the investigation into a recent leak of credit card accounts at CardSystems Solutions unfolds.
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 February 2, 2007 Roy Mark	Congress, White House Dinged on Cyber Security Lawmakers' inability to pass legislation and the administration's lack of leadership earn D's in annual report card from CSIA.