{"id":4778,"date":"2011-09-06T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T20:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/california-increases-data-breach-notification-detail-requirements\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T17:10:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:10:38","slug":"california-increases-data-breach-notification-detail-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/california-increases-data-breach-notification-detail-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"California Increases Data Breach Notification Detail Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California has passed a bill that requires<br \/>\ncompanies to provide more information to their consumers when a data breach<br \/>\noccurs. The <a href=\"http:\/\/leginfo.ca.gov\/pub\/11-12\/bill\/sen\/sb_0001-0050\/sb_24_bill_20110831_chaptered.html\">Senate<br \/>\nBill 24<\/a> establishes standards for the details to be included in data breach<br \/>\nnotifications; which builds off Senate Bill 1386 which required organizations<br \/>\nto notify individuals after a breach of personal information.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also requires companies to send an<br \/>\nelectronic copy of the notification to the state attorney general if the breach<br \/>\naffects more than 500 people in the state of California. Senator Simitian said<br \/>\nthis bill is the next logical step to ensure consumers have the specific<br \/>\ninformation they need to protect themselves after a data breach.<\/p>\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/electronicverificationsystems.com\/\">fraud prevention<\/a> bill<br \/>\nrequires that breach notifications must be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be written in plain language;<\/li>\n<li>Include the name and contact information<br \/>\nof the agency breached;<\/li>\n<li>Provide a list of the personal<br \/>\ninformation reasonably believed to have been subject to the breach;<\/li>\n<li>Spell out the date of the breach, the<br \/>\nestimated date of the breach or the date range within which the breach<br \/>\noccurred;<\/li>\n<li>Specify whether the i<a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/identifraud-compliance\/\">d<br \/>\nverification<\/a> notification was delayed as a result of a law enforcement<br \/>\ninvestigation;<\/li>\n<li>Offer a general description of the<br \/>\nbreach incident;<\/li>\n<li>Provide toll-free telephone numbers and<br \/>\naddresses of the major credit reporting agencies, if the breach exposed a<br \/>\nSocial Security number or a driver&#8217;s license or California identification<br \/>\ncard number;<\/li>\n<li><span>Include information about what the<br \/>\norganization has done to protect individuals whose information was<br \/>\nbreached;<\/span>and<\/li>\n<li>Outline steps individuals may take to<br \/>\nprotect himself or herself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\"><\/ul>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California has passed a bill that requires companies to provide more information to their consumers when a data breach occurs. TheSenate Bill 24establishes standards for the details to be included in data breach notifications; which builds off Senate Bill 1386 which required organizations to notify individuals after a breach of personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-prevention","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}