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InternetNews March 8, 2007 Roy Mark	Gates' Washington Trip a Privacy Affair Congress should pass 'milestone' national uniform privacy standard says Microsoft chairman.
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 September 22, 2005 Roy Mark	Roberts Vote Could Stall Data Privacy Law Judiciary Committee may vote today on mandating national breach disclosure law.
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 May 11, 2005 Roy Mark	Senate Debating Data Privacy Changes Senate Commerce Committee opens series of hearing on data broker practices.
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 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.
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 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 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 January 7, 2011	ITRC Seeks Full Data Breach Disclosure With major data breaches on the rise, the Identity Theft Resource Center is urging the formation of a centralized, searchable repository for the public to keep track of what institutions have seen their information compromised.
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 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.
Wall Street & Technology November 26, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Data Security: An Increasingly Daunting Task With breaches on the rise, consumer confidence waining, more data privacy regulations in the pipeline and a focus on outsourcing, financial services institutions must ensure they are protecting customer data -- both internally and externally.
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 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.
U.S. Banker June 2007 Holly Sraeel	Accountability at Issue in Data Security Failings Enforcing stiffer criminal penalties is one way to hold merchants and data brokers more accountable. This is good news for banks.
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 August 4, 2006 Roy Mark	Data Breaches And Congress A roundup of where federal data breach security laws stand.
Wall Street & Technology October 23, 2007 Melanie Rodier	How Are U.S. Businesses and Lawmakers Responding to Data Breaches? Nearly 77 million individuals have been affected by data breaches so far this year. But even after suffering a data breach, many businesses failed to implement encryption solutions or seek legal counsel.
Information Today September 2005 Paula J. Hane	Information Privacy Forum The 5th Annual Information Privacy Forum provided a series of six panel discussions and continuous opportunities for audience questions and comments in addition to addresses about issues such as insights into how to strike a balance between consumers' rights to privacy and marketers' rights.
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 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 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 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 February 6, 2008 Melanie Rodier	Data Breaches Increasingly Costly, Especially in Financial Services As the number of data breaches reported annually continues to surge, the costs incurred by companies that report incidents also are increasing
Bank Systems & Technology July 12, 2007 Larry Greenemeier	Link Between Data Breaches And ID Theft Unclear, GAO Reports A U.S. Government Accountability Office report indicates that while the amount of information lost or stolen is disturbing, it's difficult to prove that these breaches lead to identity theft.
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 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 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 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.
Bank Systems & Technology November 20, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan	Best Practices on Data Breaches The task of informing consumers of a breach falls on banks. How the institutions do that is key to how they will be perceived by their customers.
Bank Systems & Technology November 6, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan	2008 Data Breaches: 30 Million and Counting Roughly 30 million consumers have had sensitive personal data stolen in the 552 reported data breaches so far in 2008.
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 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 January 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Vendors See More DLP with ID Management CA's recent acquisition is a sign of more product adds to come.
Bank Systems & Technology February 5, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz	Deloitte Says Financial Crisis May Lead to Security Crisis for Banks Problems with liquidity and customer retention aren't the only challenges that banks will face in 2009. The pressures brought on by the financial crisis are actually increasing banks' vulnerabilities to data breaches.
InternetNews November 11, 2005 Jim Wagner	Report: ID Theft Haunting Bank Customers Banks need to address the growing concern among their customers over ID theft, or risk losing them.
InternetNews August 3, 2010	Health Care Orgs Endure Data Breach Epidemic Hospitals, medical centers and physicians' offices have been responsible for a disproportionately large number of data breaches so far this year, according to one security study.
InternetNews April 10, 2008 Susan Kuchinskas	Security Here and There Foreign compliance vendors say security trumps privacy in the U.S.
InternetNews April 1, 2010	New Law Aims to Shore Up Retail Data Security Banks get a break in Washington, one of a growing number of states enabling them to recoup money lost from ID theft and data breaches.
InternetNews March 15, 2007 Roy Mark	A Charming Third Time For Anti-Spyware Bill? House panel backs Spy Act again despite two rejections from Senate. H.R. 964 would require an opt-in, notice and consent regime for adware or spyware that collects personally identifiable information from consumers.
InternetNews January 5, 2004 Janis Mara	California Debuts New Online Privacy Laws New California laws mandate privacy policies and information sharing disclosure.
Bank Technology News May 2007 Rebecca Sausner	Cyber Security: Data Breach Insurance Gains in Popularity As data breaches become more frequent, insurance policies offer a range of protections. But should money spent on premiums be spent on shoring up security instead?
U.S. Banker June 2007 Rebecca Sausner	Cyber Security: Insurance Not Standard Yet, But Choices Abound Typical policies now offer a range of protections, as data breaches become more problematic. But at what point should premiums be spent instead on shoring up security?
Information Today April 21, 2011 George H. Pike	House and Senate Propose Online Privacy 'Bill of Rights' Legislation The face of online privacy could change dramatically if legislation recently introduced in Congress becomes law.
Wall Street & Technology January 5, 2007 Cory Levine	The Trouble With Customers and Their Data The cost of customer data exposure is increasing, and the financial services industry is trying to reconcile the price of customer data protection with the increasingly disconcerting ramifications of its loss.
Wall Street & Technology December 12, 2007 Melanie Rodier	Data Breaches Costly For Financial Firms Data breaches are costly for any company, but according to a 2007 study, the average total cost for an incident is much higher in the financial sector.