Friday, January 16, 2015

Obama calls for data breach notification law, privacy bill of rights

U.S. President Barack Obama will push Congress to pass a law requiring companies that are victims of data breaches to notify affected consumers within 30 days and a second law that gives consumers more control over their digital data, he said.

Obama will call for a national data breach notification law and a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights in ID theft and privacy initiatives in his State of the Union speech Jan. 20, he said Monday at the Federal Trade Commission.

Neither of those proposals is a new one—the White House first called for a consumer privacy bill of rights in February 2012 and has backed a national breach notification law for years—but Congress has failed to pass those proposals. With a growing number of data breaches coming to light, it’s important for Congress to protect Internet users from a “direct threat” by hackers, Obama said.


read full article at PC World


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