Privacy and Security Alert: Six Additional State Data Security Breach Notification Laws Become Effective in 2007
2/21/2007
With heightened awareness of the value and vulnerability of personal and financial information collected by businesses and governments, more states are enacting legislation to require consumer notification when there are security breaches involving this information. In 2006, 35 states and the District of Columbia introduced legislation addressing security breach notification. The latest legislation - Arizona, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, Utah and Vermont - became effective in January 2007.
Included in this Mintz Levin Alert is a full comparison matrix of the various state data breach laws and a brief summary of the newly effective laws.
