SecurityRatty: Researchers say notification laws not lowering ID theft

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Researchers say notification laws not lowering ID theft

2008-06-05 00:00:00 by Robert McMillan in Network World on Security

Over the past five years, 43 U.S. states have adopted data breach notification laws, but has all of this legislation actually cut down on identity theft? Not according to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University who have published a state-by-state analysis of data supplied by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).