{"id":815,"date":"2017-10-06T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2017\/10\/06\/lege-trend-data-breach-exposes-consumer-information-pay-the-consumer-so-says-republicans\/"},"modified":"2017-10-06T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T20:29:00","slug":"lege-trend-data-breach-exposes-consumer-information-pay-the-consumer-so-says-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/lege-trend-data-breach-exposes-consumer-information-pay-the-consumer-so-says-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend: Data Breach Exposes Consumer Information? Pay the Consumer, so Says Republicans."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Congressional hearings on the Equifax breach, Republicans bandied about the idea of requiring\u00a0credit reporting businesses, that have exposed consumer information, to pay affected consumers &#8220;a couple thousand bucks each [consumer]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rational: An incentive to keep business data security up to snuff<\/p>\n<p>The Republican: Congressman\u00a0Joe Barton (R-TX), a founder of the bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/353621-gop-rep-we-could-having-hears-about-breaches-every-year-if-we-dont-act\">The Hill |\u00a0GOP rep pitches fines for hacked credit-monitoring firms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Congressional hearings on the Equifax breach, Republicans bandied about the idea of requiring\u00a0credit reporting businesses, that have exposed consumer information, to pay affected consumers &#8220;a couple thousand bucks each [consumer]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rational: An incentive to keep business data security up to snuff<\/p>\n<p>The Republican: Congressman\u00a0Joe Barton (R-TX), a founder of the bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/technology\/353621-gop-rep-we-could-having-hears-about-breaches-every-year-if-we-dont-act\">The Hill |\u00a0GOP rep pitches fines for hacked credit-monitoring firms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,23,43,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-business-trend","category-fintech-finance-technology","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}