Data leakage in the financial services industry - Dianne Feinstein presses for law PDF  | Print |  E-mail
US Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is leading a call for a national privacy law in the wake of news that private information on up to 145,000 U.S. residents was leaked to identity thieves from data collector ChoicePoint Inc.

Potential victims of this customer data leakage event live in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

For most U.S. companies, only a 2003 California law requires identity theft notification.

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