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Source: SC Magazine - Posted by anthony
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A national data breach notification bill was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.
The Data Accountability and Trust Act would require any organization that experiences a breach of electronic data containing personal information to notify all U.S. individuals whose information is breached. The law requires that the Federal Trade Commission to also be notified.
In addition, organizations would be required to designate an information security officer and establish a data security policy. The policy would have to address the collection of personal information and include a process for identifying and correcting system vulnerabilities and disposing electronic data.
A federal law is needed to replace the “patchwork quilt” of various state data breach notification laws, Shannon Kellogg, director of information security policy at EMC, told SCMagazineUS.com on Thursday.
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