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Australia is re-writing its data security laws. A draft proposal includes exemptions from notification requirements for governmental entities and telecommunications companies.
Australia’s Draft Data Security Legislation
The Guardian | Telcos and security agencies exempted from data breach rules in draft bill
Where? Virgina
What budget provisions are boosting data security? Governor McAuliffe says the state’s budget will include education investments for cybersecurity, including:
New York Legislature, at the behest of its Attorney General, is strengthening its data security laws.
Assembly Bill 6866 adds new data to protection requirements and increases penalties.
This bill creates these standards that establish compliance with the law for businesses:
New York Legislature is considering stronger data security laws which would:
Congress is working to secure the nation’s power grid because the power grid is facing a major cyberattack because:
Anthem Inc. responded to a class action lawsuit concerning a data breach affecting 80 million by focusing on the 1 hot botton issue legislatures and regulators are focusing on:
whether the person whose personal information was hacked suffered any actual damages
Why is this response from Anthem important? Because courts, legislatures, and regulators have come down on all sides of whether actual damages is required in a data breach suit.
Anthem also provided all 80 million customers with 2…
California’s state auditor released a report on the California’s technology department that:
The audit recommends:
Security Experts say health care data is 4 to 12 times more valuable than credit card data to hackers.
Why is health care data so valuable?
Courts and legislatures have differed as to whether a person can bring a lawsuit when their personal data is stolen, but the data has not been used to harm the person.
What happened in this administrative law case? The FTC has been trying to enforce sanctions against a health care company for a data breach.
The FTC legalese is that the health care company’s ” purported failure to institute reasonable data security constituted an unfair trade practice under section 5 of the FTC Act,…