Infosecurity: Following the recent major breaches at numerous US retail companies, four leading Democrat senators have introduced new legislation, the Data Security and Breach Notification Act, designed to charge the FTC with developing ‘robust but flexible’ security rules that would be required of all businesses that hold consumers’ personal information.
The four senators are Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairman of the Intelligence Committee; John Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation; Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet; and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Science and Space.
