U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) introduced legislation Friday to require businesses or government agencies to notify individuals if a database has been broken into and personal data has been compromised, including Social Security numbers, driver's licenses and credit cards.
The Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act would set a national standard for notification of consumers when a database breach occurs. Only California, which has a notification law going into effect Tuesday, requires businesses or government to disclose attacks on databases that compromise an individual's personal information.
Feinstein's legislation is based, in part, on the new California law and requires a business or government entity to notify an individual when there is a "reasonable basis to conclude that a hacker or other criminal has obtained unencrypted personal data maintained by the entity."
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