Privacy and Data Protection: Privacy Updates in the 111th Congress and How Your Business May Be Affected

Privacy and Data Protection

Womble Carlyle's "Privacy Bulletin" highlights select developments that might be of interest to entities that collect or use personally identifiable information. Protecting a person's privacy is a challenge to businesses, universities, and all other entities that collect personal information, particularly given the proliferation of personally identifiable information contained within consumer and employee records. Womble Carlyle issues its Privacy Bulletin twice a month.

Monday, December 14, 2009, 3:51 PM

Privacy Updates in the 111th Congress and How Your Business May Be Affected

By The Womble Carlyle Team

Although most of the public attention in Washington is on health care reform, elected officials also are considering important reforms in the area of privacy legislation. These proposed changes could affect such areas important to businesses as privacy breach notification, cybersecurity, health privacy, identity theft, and data transfers.

Womble Carlyle attorney Danielle Benoit writes about this pending legislation in the current issue of "Focus on WMACCA," the official newsletter of the Washington Metropolitan Area Corporate Counsel Association (WMACCA). Benoit reviews the three key pieces of privacy legislation currently under consideration:

Senate Bill 1490, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act
Senate Bill 139, the Data Breach Notification Act
House Bill 2221, the Data Accountability and Trust Act.

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