Comments on: Senate committee OKs bills on personal data breaches

Overlapping measures prescribe new rules for government agencies and private firms that experience break-ins. Will they become law?

[wbenton]

Required or not?

Under the currently passed laws, stealing personal information is already illegal. That said, what good does this new bill do that the previously passed bills could not?

We MUST seek to implement current laws to their fullest extent prior to creating new laws which could easily end us up in more red tape than we require!!!

Walt

[somurdoch]

Required - but not this proposal

What the US has so far failed to do is to approach the problem of personal privacy in a comprehensive way, as has been done in the EU. What is needed is not more piecemeal legislation, but a single statute to protect personal privacy regardless of the industry, media or sector (private vs. state government vs. federal) involved.

[kmccanlies]

Why do banks put money in a vault?

Why do banks put money in a vault? Stealing the money is already against the law, so why not just stack it in the middle of the floor in the lobby of the bank?

While it is also against the law to steal money, I think we would all agree that our bank has an obligation to protect that money. And an obligation to let us know if our money gets stolen.

The same for data privacy. While identity theft is against the law, this legislation will help require companies to protect that data and to let us know if it is compromised.