In this Privacy Tracker exclusive, IAPP Westin Fellow Patricia Bailin, CIPP/US, CIPT, looks at President Barack Obama’s proposed national data breach notification standard against existing legislation. “The clamor for a standardized data breach notification requirement has become almost as quotidian as a data breach itself,” she writes, adding, “Companies no longer wonder whether they will ever have to notify consumers of a breach but rather when they will do so.” Looking at the current complexity of incident-response planning with so many varied state and local breach notification laws, she notes, “Obama’s recent proposal of a National Data Breach Notification Standard has received widespread attention for its promise to preempt and unify the existing patchwork of requirements.”
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