California Strengthens Its Data Breach Law - Will Other States Follow?

California Amends Its Data Breach Law - For Real, This Time! (As California Goes, So Goes the Nation?)

August 31, 2011, Governor Brown signed SB 24 into law.  SB 24, which will take effect January 1, 2012, requires the inclusion of certain content in data breach notifications, including a general description of the incident, the type of information breached, the time of the breach, and toll-free telephone numbers and addresses of the major credit reporting agencies in California. 

In addition, importantly, SB 24 requires data holders to send an electronic copy of the notification to the California Attorney General if a single breach affects more than 500 Californians.  This adds California to the list of states and other jurisdictions that require some type of regulator notice in the event of certain types of data security breaches

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