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The Point of Breach Notification Laws

2007-11-07 21:57:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...notification laws but I don't see a lot written on the public policy reasons for breach disclosure/notification laws. Well..., I don't hate rehashing too much, here goes There are reasonably several justifications for breach notification laws Accountability of the data custodian Alerting the data owner of the breach Collecting public...
 
Tags: breach notification laws, breach, breach notification, laws, data, public policy data, data owner, data custodian, data breaches
 
 
 
 
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Stolen University Health Care laptop requires notification of 4800

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2008-03-14 10:39:01 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...notification delay Evan] Not knowing what confidential information is where is a very common problem in today's organizations University Healthcare is providing the 4800 patients with a year of free credit monitoring and is making changes in their policy Evan] I feel like doing some math. The cost for full disk laptop encryption, maybe $100...
 
Tags: information, information assets, personal information, confidential information, information security governance, patients information, university, sensitive information, information security personnel
 
 
 
 
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Montgomery Ward breached, no notification obligation?

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2008-06-27 23:45:03 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...notification illegal, but I think it is also unethical However, those guidelines from Visa are largely technical, and they do not cover a key additional step: that notification laws in nearly every state generally require organizations that have been hacked to come clean to the affected consumers, not just to the financial industry Companies...
 
Tags: card companies, companies, services, services closely, credit card companies, services retail properties, financial company citigroup, company, montgomery ward
 
 
 
 
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt server breach leads to notification

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2008-07-08 12:22:09 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...notification Report Credit The New Hampshire State Attorney General Response From the online source cited above Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), a publishing company based in Boston, will begin notifying individuals whose information may have been compromised by a worldwide Internet-based attack that affected one of its websites Evan] A...
 
Tags: houghton mifflin harcourt, information, information security professionals, sensitive personal information, information security, server, notification, hmh, company based
 
 
 
 
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CA breach notification law 2.0?...

2008-02-08 19:06:00 by Manu Namboodiri in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...notification. They want to clear up how companies notify the affected parties - apparently there is too much jargon and legalese. Which leaves most folks not knowing what hapenned, how it hapenned and how they are affected We have talked about this on our blog - just saw that Tom Olzak also picks this one up.. I don't think this is making...
 
Tags: communication clarity, recent news implies, disclosure, laws, disclosure letters, current laws, clarity, data breach notification, tough time
 
 
 
 
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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
 
Tags: carnegie mellon university, federal trade commission, researchers, identity theft, data, ftc, analysis, cut, past
 
 
 
 
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June Patch Tuesday Advance Notification

2008-06-05 15:49:31 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...notification bulletin format adds a very readable new view in the Affected Software section. For each operating system version you can see which bulletins are relevant and what the severity is. The bulletins now have English titles too: The three critical bulletins The Bluetooth Bulletin: Affects XP SP2 and SP3, Vista and Vista SP1 The...
 
Tags: security bulletins, bulletins, critical bulletins, windows versions, versions, windows, critical, vista sp1, windows server
 
 
 
 
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Adware company refines opt-out, notification technology

2008-07-08 00:00:00 by HASH0x8ba5f30 in Network World on Security
 
Facing heat over privacy worries, NebuAd said Tuesday it has a new notification and opt-out system for its targeted advertising system that critics say is invasive and spies on users
 
Tags: system, opt-out system, notification, privacy worries, users, invasive, tuesday, heat, nebuad
 
 
 
 
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June Patch Tuesday Advance Notification

2008-06-05 15:49:31 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...notification bulletin format adds a very readable new view in the Affected Software section. For each operating system version you can see which bulletins are relevant and what the severity is. The bulletins now have English titles too: The three critical bulletins The Bluetooth Bulletin: Affects XP SP2 and SP3, Vista and Vista SP1 The...
 
Tags: security bulletins, bulletins, critical bulletins, windows versions, versions, windows, critical, vista sp1, windows server