Leahy takes third shot at data breach notifications

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., rolled out legislation July 22 that would establish national standards for data breach notifications to consumers. The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act also calls for the government to establish rules protecting privacy and security when it uses information from commercial data brokers, to conduct audits of government contracts with data brokers and to impose penalties on government contractors that fail to meet data privacy and security requirements.

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