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Congress Proposes Data Breach Disclosure Bill
segphault writes "A new data breach disclosure bill proposed by Senator Sensenbrenner (the same politician that sponsored the infamous Real ID Act) requires companies to inform federal law enforcement agencies if a database containing information on more than 10,000 citizens is infiltrated by hackers. The punishments for failing to disclose information about data breaches to federal law enforcement agents under this new bill include jail time and massive fines. Although this bill requires disclosure to the government, it does not require companies to inform the victims of data theft. Furthermore, it allows federal law enforcement agencies to prevent companies from voluntarily disclosing information about breaches to the public, even if the companies are required to do so by state laws. This law could potentially allow companies to circumvent and undermine state laws designed to protect consumers from identity theft."
That has great potential to do something..........then they get it backwards.
Inform the gov't....why? It's the citizens put at risk when this happens. I want to know about it dammit. That's my information they lost.
Furthermore, it allows federal law enforcement agencies to prevent companies from voluntarily disclosing information about breaches to the public, even if the companies are required to do so by state laws. What? Backwards I tell you.
Don't mind my ranting demeanor. I've been on an ant-gov't rant since I listened to Michael Savage earlier.
That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable.
Congress passes laws all of the time that it has no constitutional authority to enact. The states should just flat out ignore these laws and go on their merry way. If the feds try anything, many states have more than enough law enforcement capabilities to overpower federal law enforcement and the loyalty of the guardsmen in the NG is going to be first and foremost with their families and communities.
The states need to start knocking the feds down a few notches on the totem poll through things like not taking mandates, arresting DEA agents on capital murder charges for killing people in no-knock raids and things like that.