Senators Introduce Strong Data Breach Bill
Senators Introduce Strong Data Breach Bill:
Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today introduced legislation to protect consumers when their personal privacy is compromised by data breaches. First introduced in 2005, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act is one of the stronger data-breach proposals that have been proposed in Congress. CDT is particularly supportive of a provision in the measure that strengthens oversight of the government's use of commercial databases to collect information about citizens. CDT supports federal data breach legislation so long as it improves on existing protections and does not undermine the strong protections already established by the states.