Data Breach Bills Go Nowhere Fast
for data protection."
Even groups supporting a national data bill have questions about the legislation now in Congress. While ITAA, a trade group, supports a national law that preempts state legislation, many of the current bills focus too much on notification and not enough on preventing data breaches, said Bob Cohen, ITAA’s senior vice president. ITAA called for Congress to encourage businesses to employ better data protection measures.
"We are concerned that much of the emphasis in this legislation focuses on horses already out of the barn," Cohen said. "We believe that legislation will be most useful when, along with an appropriately designed notification standard, it also creates incentives for business to adopt practices that protect data and obviate the need for notification."
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service
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