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Congress Weakening Data Privacy Congress Weakening Data Privacy

More bad news about data privacy.
Ed Foster reports in his InfoWorld blog:

With last Friday's disclosure of a long unreported Department of Energy data leak coming so soon after the massive Veterans Affairs security breach, the pressure on Congress now to do something about privacy and data theft will surely be irresistible. A wide array of bills have been kicking around in the Senate and the House for months, including some we discussed earlier that would replace strong laws in California and other states requiring that consumers be notified of security breaches involving their personal information. Instead, most of these bills would pre-empt the state laws with a much weaker disclosure requirement that would leave it up to the organization that exposed your data to decide if the risk of identity theft is great enough to bother notifying you.

As if that's not bad enough, observers expect a different bill that goes even further in weakening effective state privacy laws could be voted on by the House as early as this week. H.R. 3997, the Financial Data Protection Act of 2006, will deliver a new level of protection all right, but it is protection for the financial institutions whose security failures put us at risk for identity theft.

Time to sweep all of these elected officials out of office and get some folks to represent us who understand the importance of data privacy and security, don't you think?

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