The U.S. House Energy & Commerce Committee took the first steps recently to establish a federal law that would cover actions that companies need to take to secure consumer data. ...more
On September 30, 2014, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law an expansion of current California data breach laws. The bill, AB 1710, which was introduced in the wake of several high-profile data breaches, builds on...more
On September 18, 2014, Senators Orrin Hatch, Dean Heller and Chris Coons introduced "The Law Enforcement Access to Data Stored Abroad Act" (LEADS), a bill that would amend provisions in the Electronic Communications Privacy...more