Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act
Latest action · Jan 24, 2005 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S288-289)
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 24, 2005
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act - Requires any agency or person that owns or licenses electronic data containing personal information, following the discovery of a breach of security of the system containing such data, to notify any U.S. resident whose personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired by an unauthorized person. Requires any agency or person who possesses but does not own or license such data, to notify the information owner or licensee about such an unauthorized acquisition. Allows delay of notification in connection with authorized law enforcement purposes. Provides authorized methods of notification and alternative notification procedures.
Provides: (1) civil penalties and rights and remedies in connections with violations; and (2) for enforcement by State attorneys general.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 24, 2005Introduced in Senate
- Jan 24, 2005Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S288-289)
- Jan 24, 2005Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S287-288)
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| S 751 | Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act | Related bill | Apr 20, 2005 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Law.
- Bank accounts
- Civil actions and liability
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Criminal investigation
- Damages
- Data banks
- Driver licenses
- Electronic government information
- Electronic mail systems
- Encryption
- Federal preemption
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fines (Penalties)
- Fraud
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government publicity
- Identification devices
- Identity theft
- Injunctions
- Internet
- Law
- Local laws
- Right of privacy
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Security measures
- Social security numbers
- Social Welfare
- State laws
- Transportation and Public Works
- Web sites
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 24, 2005Introduced in Senate
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