Sentences with phrase «breach notification legislation»

As of late 2014, 47 U.S. states had approved data breach notification legislation, with Alabama, New Mexico and South Dakota the lone holdouts.

Not exact matches

Manitoba is now getting its own legislation that will require notification following a data breach which will have many companies asking questions, says Judith Payne of Pitblado LLP.
Mandatory breach notification under PIPEDA (the federal privacy legislation that governs in most provinces) should be in effect sometime in 2018.
In addition to the notification requirements under privacy legislation, the organization could also have a broader legal duty under negligence law to notify an individual whose data has been breached if that breach could harm, or could materially increase the risk of harm to, that individual.
More recent legislation requires notification to the patient when there is a breach of unsecured protected health information.3
As legislation changes and the breach notification requirements in Canada evolve, so too will the costs associated with damage from hackers, breaches, cyber extortion, and other cyber-related crimes.
Prescribing the content of notifications to individuals and reports to the Commissioner will align the federal private sector regime for mandatory breach reporting with equivalent provincial legislation, and those of Canada's major trading partners.
On Sept. 1, the federal government released proposed text for regulations to govern mandatory breach reporting and notification under Canada's federal privacy legislation, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, or PIPEDA.
Other «digital legislation» produced by the ULCC includes the Uniform Electronic Evidence Act (1998, fairly widely adopted) and the Uniform Privacy Protection Act (Data Breach Notification) of 2010.
Uniform legislation on breach notification should be able operate with all of them, since the Conference will probably recommend enactment to all.
We provide legal guidance on all aspects of relevant legislation in the area, including data processing agreements, cross-border transfers of personal data, employment data treatment and data breach notifications.
[63] The Working Group on Identity Theft recommends legislation to make notification of privacy breaches mandatory in significant instances, using the jurisdictions» privacy commissioners or independent privacy review officers as the screens for the important decision whether the breach is important enough to justify the costs to all parties of notification.
NAR supports a single Federal standard for data breach notification and will work to see that any legislation enacted is narrowly tailored to protect small businesses from undue compliance burdens.
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