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Federal Personal Data Privacy Act Clears Judicial Committee

Personal Data Privacy and Security Act Specifies More Aggressive Sentences
Personal Data Privacy and Security Act Specifies More Aggressive Sentences
Personal Data Privacy and Security Act Specifies More Aggressive Sentences

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  • Updates on New and Pending Legislation.
  • Comparison of hard drive erasure methods
  • NIST special publication 800-88 media sanitization guidelines
 Senator Leahy’s new bill ups the ante for acts of data piracy and also failure to report data breaches. Fraud involving digitized or electronic personally identifiable information (including identify theft) can be considered grounds for racketeering charges, which carry far more significant criminal penalties and sentences. The Act directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to update its guidelines for fraudulent use of private data and for concealment of security breaches. As written, the new law will also establish an Office of Identity Protection under the FTC umbrella, and impose new standard on GSA contracts.

A more complete summary of the bill’s provisions are available here.