FTC supports breach notification bill
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, October 4, 2010
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved a data breach bill requiring entities that hold consumers’ sensitive information to create a robust data compliance protection plan. The intention of the bill is to enforce strict breach notification requirements.
The FTC submitted testimony for a Senate hearing on the bill that included a passage that it “strongly supports” the bill.
Notification in appropriate circumstances can be beneficial, according to the FTC’s testimony. “Notification laws that have increased public awareness of the harm breaches can cause. Breach notification at the federal level would extend notification nationwide and accomplish similar goals.”
The bill would serve as a complement to several breach notification laws on a state level already in effect, the FTC stated.
U.S. Senators Mark Pryor (D-AR) and Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) filed in August the “Data Security and Breach Notification Act of 2010,” which would be regulated by the FTC.
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