Other recent privacy legislation includes the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 2001, which required that financial institutions disclose to customers how they use private information.
That law, called the California Security Breach Information Act, and the federal Graham-Leach-Bliley Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) are intended to prod the industry to adopt better data-handling practices.
However, today we see that all of the major enterprise management solutions and some of the lesser ones have the ability to share event information collected by each others' agents. But, as a rule of thumb, companies that comply with the principles...
Nor does there seem much opportunity in the regulations laid down by the Basel II accounting standard and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which sets standards for protecting consumers' personal information.
Key security issues include protecting the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the data and information systems," the GAO said. Consumers have raised concerns about whether certain collected data might reveal personal information such as...
Even though he had not actually been harmed as a result of the theft, Guin argued Brazos was required by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB) Act to encrypt personal information and limit its disclosure. The 1999 law requires financial service companies...