Congress edges toward new privacy rules
posted by:Jennifer Manning // 10:49 AM // March 13, 2005 // Digital Democracy: law, policy and politics
Members of Congress in the US are in the midst of deciding how to best respond to the recent data breaches by LexisNexis and ChoicePoint.
Sen. Jon Corzine, D-N.J., plans to introduce a bill next week requiring "the chairman or chief enforcement officer to attest to the effectiveness of the systems that provide for control of information" and provide notification to consumers of security breaches.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is preparing his own proposal to require a "box to be posted on any Web site that seeks to obtain personal information about a customer" with disclosure about how the data will be used.
Click here for the CNET news article.
