The State: Kentucky
The proposed legislation would require companies responsible for a data breach to provide impacted Kentuckians:
- access to a free credit freeze
- 3 free credit reports each year from each of the major credit reporting agencies
- 5 years of credit monitoring
- Require all credit reports be encrypted.
How was the bill proposal announced? The State Attorney General Andy Beshear and the bill’s author, State Senator McGarvey, at AARP Kentucky’s Louisville headquarters