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New York State Assembly is pursuing SB06880 to require a consumer to be notified of a breach within 15 days of discovering the breach.New York SB 06880 (2017)
Supporting changes to New York’s Data Security and Notification Act, the state Attorney General states:
Convenience and Fuel retailers and a coalition of that includes the American Hotel & Lodging Association, International Franchise Association, National Association of Realtors, National Association of Truck Stop Operators, National Council of Chain Restaurants, National Grocers Association, National Retail Federation, Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, and the U.S. Travel Association support 4 principles of data security legislation:
Illinois is proposing to eliminate fees that credit-reporting companies are allowed to charge for imposing or lifting a credit security freeze.
2 Attorneys General (MA and NY) are suing, or my soon sue, Equifax for violating state consumer laws.
This sparked legislation to require credit reporting agencies to have the same scrutiny as banks, hospitals and others that handle confidential consumer data.
WGBH | Mass. AG Maura Healey Will Sue Equifax Over Data Breach
Nebraska State Sen. Adam Morfeld is proposing a bill to require a credit reporting agency that has a breach to offer lifetime credit monitoring for free.
Morfeld’s reasoning? Equifax response to its hack was not enough
Virginia de-certified touch screen voting machines that do not leave a paper trail after voting machines were hacked within seconds at a tech conference earlier this year.
A vote by the State Election Department triggered the removal of the voting machines.
Tech Crunch | Virginia just decertified its most hackable voting machines
What is a data trespass law? While it sounds like data security, these laws create a crime against physically entering land to acquire data like pollution or animal cruetly.
Are data trespass laws constititional? Maybe not. A Federal Appeals court has found a Wyoming law likely violates the 1st Amendment.
Who is for these laws? Land owners, members of the Farm Bureau
Who is against these laws? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Center for Food Safety, National Press Photographers…
Recent cyber security philanthropic gifts:
Hurricane Harvey exposed the need for energy security legislation by:
Oracle repoprtedly broke with other tech companies, to openly back a federal human trafficking bill.
The legislation:Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, sponsored by Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Senator Robert Portman (R-OH)
What this bill would do: Amend protections for social networking sites & online platforms such as Google and Facebook from being held legally liable for content shared by those on the site.
What do tech opponents say? These amendments will create endless…