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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 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 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 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 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 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 May 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Senate Debating Data Privacy Changes Senate Commerce Committee opens series of hearing on data broker practices. |
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 March 8, 2006 Roy Mark |
Second Phone Data Privacy Bill Approved Targeting both telephone data brokers and telecoms, a House panel today approved legislation that bans the sale, lease or rental of confidential telephone records. |
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 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 March 15, 2005 Roy Mark |
Data Brokers Back Federal Disclosure Law Lawmakers prod ChoicePoint, LexisNexis into supporting mandatory disclosure of security breaches. |
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. |
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 22, 2005 Roy Mark |
Roberts Vote Could Stall Data Privacy Law Judiciary Committee may vote today on mandating national breach disclosure law. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 11, 2005 Roy Mark |
Staggered Start For ChoicePoint Hearing Senate ID theft hearing postponed but Schumer and Corzine promise new privacy legislation. |
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. |
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. |
CRM September 1, 2006 Petouhoff & Johnson |
How Much Is Your Customers' Trust Worth? With the profitability of data theft, there does not seem to be an end to the crime unless customer data protection becomes job number one. And while no company expects to have a data breach, the cost of preventing one may well be worth the price. |
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 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 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 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 June 22, 2006 Clint Boulton |
Two FTC Laptops Stolen The Federal Trade Commission today said two if its attorneys' laptops containing the personal information of 110 people were stolen from a locked vehicle last week. |
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. |
InternetNews January 26, 2006 Roy Mark |
FTC Slaps Record Fine on ChoicePoint Info broker agrees to $15 million in penalties for last year's massive data breach. The company's stock subsequently dropped $3.05 a share to $43.25. |
Information Today March 29, 2012 |
FTC Recommends Best Practices for Consumer Privacy Protection The final report sets forth best practices for businesses to protect the privacy of American consumers and to give them greater control over the collection and use of their personal data. |
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 December 2003 Stephen Barlas |
Taking Credit Washington shields businesses from identity theft losses. |
Insurance & Technology August 12, 2005 Gregg Keizer |
ID Theft in Regulatory Spotlight The growing online menace of identity and data theft has resulted in the introduction of another bill to address the problem. The Identify Theft Protection Act is the 10th identity theft bill put into play this session. |
The Motley Fool September 14, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Your Brokerage Account Safe? A security breach at TD AMERITRADE creates headaches. With identity theft on the rise, it wouldn't hurt to ask your broker what's it's doing to prevent something like this from happening to you. |
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 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 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 April 12, 2005 Roy Mark |
Feinstein Tightens ID Theft Proposal California Democrat calls for national notification law just before Senate hearing. |
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 31, 2006 Roy Mark |
Senate Passes Phone Data Confidentiality Bill A U.S. Senate panel pushed out legislation yesterday that makes it illegal to acquire, use or sell a person's confidential phone records without affirmative written consent. |
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 March 2, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
ID Theft Threat Grows With 1M Already Hit in '09 A new report shows identify theft is off to a rapid start this year - and the figures could be even worse than expected. |