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- Data Security Effort Fades In This Congress
- The multi-pronged effort to enact legislation addressing the growing incidents of data security breaches appears dead for this Congress. There are at least 12 bills pending in the House and Senate and little will to move any of them, let alone a compromis The multi-pronged effort to enact legislation addressing...
- Research articles 2006-09-18
- U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Approval on Data Security Bill Long Time Coming According to TraceSecurity
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- Research articles 2007-05-08
- Senate Banking Eyes New Data Security Bill
- Two members of the Senate Banking Committee introduced yet another bill last week aimed at stemming the growing number of data breaches. The bill would do three main things: require users of confidential data to develop measures to safeguard the data; req Two members of the Senate Banking Committee introduced...
- Research articles 2006-07-03
- Senate Judiciary Chairman wants strict data-security measures.(Technology: Technology Notes)
- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has introduced a bill that would tighten requirements for the handling of personal data and require notifications to consumers when their data has been compromised--a bill far stricter than a competing, The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Technology Commentaries California Raises the Bar on Data Security and Privacy
- California has recently enacted two landmark pieces of consumer rights legislation, each of which creates new burdens for companies doing business with California residents. The first, Senate Bill No. 1386 ("SB 1386"), requires any company that stores cus California has recently enacted two landmark pieces...
- Research articles 2003-09-15
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- Senate Committee Passes Data Breach Laws
- The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed two bills today that establish federal guidelines for data breach notifications.Two sweeping bills that would set new standards for data breach notifications made their way out of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. The committee voted yes on the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of...
- News items 2009-11-05
- Two data breach laws pass Senate Judiciary Committee
- Two federal data security laws have cleared the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.The committee on Thursday voted to approve both the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2009, sponsored by committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and the Data Breach Notification Act, endorsed by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.Leahy's bill...
- News items 2009-11-06
- U.S. House and Senate conferees. (Washington Report).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- U.S. House and Senate conferees face the daunting task of reconciling widely different bills to protect water utilities from bioterrorist attacks. In late December, the House passed HR 3178, the Water Infrastructure Security and Research Development U.S. House and Senate conferees face the daunting task...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- Reaction of Sen. Patrick Leahy to the Latest Data Security Breach at Seisint; Leahy to Testify on Thursday
- WASHINGTON, March 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Ranking member, Senate Judiciary Committee, to the Latest Data Security Breach at Seisint A Subsidiary of LexisNexis: "This is the latest window on security weaknesses that jeopardize the personal information that data brokers hold...
- Research articles 2005-03-09
- CompTIA Says Small Business Committee Task Force on Cyber Security Will Help Small U.S. Businesses Maintain Proper Info Security Practices
- WASHINGTON -- Maintaining the integrity and security of data is important for businesses, large to small. Today, leading Members of both the House and Senate Small Business Committees introduced the Small Business Information Security Act of 2008, S. 3102 and H.R. 6206. This legislation will go a long way toward...
- Research articles 2008-06-10
- Water security bill passes house. (Legislative Update).(Water Infrastructure Security and Research Development Act)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed The Water Infrastructure Security and Research Development Act. The $109-million package includes $12 million per year for five years to fund research, development and demonstration projects that increase security of drinking water and wastewater infrastructure, and ...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- Senate historian clams up when queried on McCarthy
- Levin and Collins Trigger DisinformationIn a key step toward unravelling the secret history of the Cold War, the U. S. Senate last week released 50-year-old executive hearings on subversion and internal security mailers conducted by Sen. Joe McCarthy (R.-Wis.).Running to more than 4,000 pages, these hearings are crammed with backstage...
- Research articles 2003-05-12
- IRS MODERNIZATION PROJECT CRITICIZED BY TREASURY'S IG.(Government Activity)
- Recent Treasury Department Inspector General audits have been critical of IRS modernization efforts for its computer facilities' networks and systems, as testimony before the U.S. Senate disclosed last week. The Inspector General, David C. Williams, testified that its audits identified substantial weaknesses...
- Research articles 2000-02-14
- Lawmakers get less combative on data-breach bills
- SAN FRANCISCO -- It's Round 2 in Congress' bid to craft federal law that would require businesses to notify U.S. consumers about computer data-security breaches. Legislation introduced in February soon could become law, given the cooperative tone of federal lawmakers, says Ari Schwartz, a privacy advocate...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Florists' Mutual discloses loss of customer, claimant records.(Florists' Mutual Insurance Co.)
- As the Senate considers tougher disclosure requirements for instances of private data theft, the largest and oldest U.S. horticultural-industry insurer said it lost a shipping crate full of magnetic backup tapes containing customer and claimant data in November. Edwardsville, Ill.-based Florists' Mutual Insurance Co.,...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
- Microsoft denies it built 'backdoor' in Windows 7
- Computerworld - Microsoft today denied that it has built a backdoor into Windows 7, a concern that surfaced yesterday after a senior National Security Agency NSA official testified before Congress that the agency had worked on the operating system. "Microsoft has not and will not put 'backdoors' into Windows," a...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Current legal highlights.(Legal Report)(Table)
- Current Legal Highlights SOURCE OF LAW BILL/CASE VENUE STATUS Federal Legislation Chemical Facilities* S. 2145...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Procurement nominee earns high marks from acquisition community
- President Obama selected one of the most knowledgeable and even-handed government acquisition professionals to run the administration's procurement policy shop, contracting observers said on Monday.Obama late last week formally nominated Daniel Gordon, deputy general counsel of the Government Accountability Office, as administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy at...
- News items 2009-10-05
- New Call-Records Bills Hold Carrier Feet To The Fire
- The U.S. Congress is accelerating into high gear against telephone call- records brokering as new bills were added to House and Senate hoppers that would levy stiff penalties on all aspects of such online activities and would also hold carriers more accountable for personal calling data security. ...
- Research articles 2006-03-13
- Telco Execs May Testify On NSA Call Database
- Executives of AT&T, BellSouth and Verizon Communications may be tapped as witnesses to testify about the carriers' collaboration with the National Security Agency NSA effort to collecting millions of U.S. subscriber call-data records as part of its counter-terrorist intelligence efforts. In the political fallout following media...
- Research articles 2006-05-15
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