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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.
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 January 11, 2011	Judiciary Chair Planning IP, Privacy Bills As the Senate Judiciary Committee gets rolling in the new session of Congress, Chairman Patrick Leahy offers details of an ambitious agenda that will tackle several key tech issues.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.
PC World October 2003 Andrew Brandt	Privacy Watch: California Law Protects Us All From Security Breaches New identity theft statute likely to help consumers everywhere.
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 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.
PC Magazine May 1, 2010 Chloe Albanesius	Another Look At Privacy Google, Microsoft, and AT&T have joined a coalition to push Congress to update electronic privacy laws.
Bank Technology News April 2007 Holly Sraeel	In the U.S., Privacy Isn't Always Convenient, Or Wanted While banks nationwide wrestle to comply with state privacy and breach notification laws, the TJX phenomenon brings the issue of consumer privacy into sharper focus: If Americans are inconvenienced in any way, they'll forgo privacy.
InternetNews May 21, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	E-Privacy Measures Head to California Senate Making sure employers reveal e-mail snooping is a top priority for Sen. Debra Bowen.
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 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 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 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 January 18, 2007 Ed Sutherland	T.J. Maxx Hit by Data Breach Consumer data, including credit card info and driver's licenses, has been stolen from T.J. Maxx.
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 January 12, 2006 Roy Mark	Data Breaches: New Year, Old Story Data breaches are off to a flying start this year. Congress does nothing about it, not even requiring companies to inform consumers of the breaches.
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."
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 11, 2005 Roy Mark	Staggered Start For ChoicePoint Hearing Senate ID theft hearing postponed but Schumer and Corzine promise new privacy legislation.
CIO January 1, 2002 Stephanie Viscasillas	Privacy Versus the FBI The antiterrorism law President Bush signed in late October makes it easier for officials investigating potential terrorist activity to get court orders to search companies' business records. It is important to take that into account in your privacy policy.
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 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 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.
Entrepreneur October 2005 Amanda C. Kooser	Security Breach? A new push has begun for legislation on both the state and federal levels to deal with the issue of data security.
PC World October 7, 2002 Michelle Madigan	Privacy Concerns Pushed to Front Lines Feds must explore, explain any effect on privacy by new policies or practices, under pending legislation.
InternetNews January 10, 2007 Roy Mark	Data Mining Giving Privacy the Shaft? Democrats use privacy rights as first issue before Senate Judiciary Committee.
InternetNews February 8, 2010	The Biggest Security Breaches of 2009 There were some spectacular data breaches last year. Here's some of the best, or worst, depending on your perspective.
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 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.
The Motley Fool February 23, 2007 Mary Dalrymple	Hassled to the Maxx The identity theft saga involving T.J. Maxx continues: Consumers need to be on the lookout for evidence that their identity, credit card, or debit card information has slipped into the wrong hands.
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.
Information Today August 6, 2012 Barbie E. Keiser	Cybersecurity and Privacy Concerns at the Highest Levels of Government Ensuring the privacy and security of personal information collected by federal government agencies and preventing cyberattacks in the future is a responsibility of government that all Americans can support.
CFO March 15, 2006 John Edwards	Commanding Data Will a raft of federal, state, and local requirements ever lead to a single information-security standard? For corporate officers in charge of compliance, the prognosis is not good.
InternetNews April 12, 2005 Roy Mark	Feinstein Tightens ID Theft Proposal California Democrat calls for national notification law just before Senate hearing.
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.