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Written by Jason Miller/FCW.com
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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
A new bill introduced by Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) earlier this week would codify many of the steps the Office of Management and Budget took in a series of memos after the flood of data breaches in fiscal 2006.
Clay, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Information Policy, Census and the National Archives Subcommittee, would require agencies to develop policies and plans to identify and protect personal information and to develop requirements for reporting data breaches.
The bill, H.R. 4791, is another in a series of legislative efforts to improve how agencies and the private sector prevent and respond to data losses. Clay introduced the bill Dec. 18, and it was referred to the committee. READ MORE
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Written by Evan Schuman/Eweek.com
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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
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Details reinforce the appearance that TJX has shown more concern about keeping this incident quiet than protecting customer data. TJX learned of its massive data breach on Oct 3, 2006, more than two months earlier than it told the government it first learned of the breach, according to an attorney representing one of the banks suing the retail chain. Getting to the bottom of these "he said/she said" exchanges—which is necessary to put these pieces of information into meaningful context—is made difficult because so much of the supporting material being referenced is still classified as confidential in the lawsuits surrounding the worst data breach in credit card history. READ MORE
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