House Passes Data Accountability and Trust Act

The United States House of Representatives this week passed H.R. 2221, the Data Accountability and Trust Act (DATA).

“In its current form, DATA requires businesses to notify customers and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) if sensitive information has been exposed to a security breach,” writes SearchCompliance.com’s Alexander B. Howard.

“If the U.S. Senate can reconcile its own approach to data breach notification legislation with DATA, a new federal standard will emerge,” Howard writes. “If signed into law by President Barack Obama, a federal data breach law would pre-empt the jumbled mass of dozens of state laws.”