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Montana and Wyoming, wrangling western individualism, passed new data breach notification laws. Here’s what they did:
Wyoming expanded what information triggers a data breach notification to include:
Wyoming also expanded what should …
Data Security is the number one concern for credit unions according to the National Association of Federal Credit Unions.
Their concern is founded in fact. In 2014, 317 million new pieces of malware were created according to Symantec’s 2015 Internet Security Threat Report. Data breaches have been increasing by 20% per year.
This group supports legislation that includes:
Buried in the federal data breach legislation, that pre-empts state data protections in 38 states, with stronger data protection statutes, is liability protection for businesses that share data security threats and intrusions with other businesses and the government. Law360
Cloud medical image exchanges are used to help radiologists be more efficient, but are suspectible to data breaches. The data security standards promoted by the industry are:
Federal data breach legislation that would preempt 38 state laws on data breach, was approved by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The biggest rift in the committee is whether federal law should preempt stronger state laws.
Last week Congressman Lamar Smith held “Reining in the EPA: A Regulation Roundtable” one of the invitees was Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller.
When conversation moved to a “secret” EPA map of U.S. waterways, Commissioner Miller indicated that the EPA released personal information about farms and ranches. The information was released to “environmental extremist groups.” It is reported that Homeland Security department called the release of the farm and ranch water maps is “a bi…
38 states have stronger state laws. The federal legislation would preempt those state laws and the lower, weaker standard would prevail. Washington Post
Alabama is the 48th state to enact data security laws, and one of a few that have revamped data security statutes post major retail data breaches. The Alabama legislation will triger notification within 30 days when any of the following information is hacked:
Data security and the political world is a sordid affair. We’ve seen data hacking by campaigns leading to arrests, and now, the Hill reports on data breaches that have K Street on edge.
The head of the American bar Association Cybersecurity Legal Task Force offers a serious warning:
Posted indata privacy$25 Million fine for Data Breach
The Federal Communications Commission this week fined AT&T $25 M for a data breach that caused personal information, including social security numbers, of 280,000 AT&T customers to be breached.
AT&T will incur more costs as it notified affected customers and pays for credit monitoring services, per the FCC order.