June 30, 2003

Sen. Feinstein: "Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act""

Senator Feinstein Seeks to Ensure Individuals are Notified when Personal Information is Stolen from Databases . This federal bill introduced June 26 is modeled upon California SB 1386, but would put enforcement powers with the FTC and state attorneys general rather than with private litigants. Like 1386, the proposed federal law exempts data that was "encrypted" but seems not to define the level or manner of encryption. More info at the Senator's press release linked to above.

Thanks to beSpacific.com for the heads up on this item. I'll be looking for the full text of the bill. If a reader has a link, please let me know via a comment or email.

Posted by dougsimpson at June 30, 2003 08:48 PM | TrackBack
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Here is the url for the text of the bill:

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=108_cong_bills&docid=f:s1350is.txt.pdf

And the Thomas page for the bill:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c108:1:./temp/~c108oMtqGZ::

Posted by: kdt at July 8, 2003 10:50 AM