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Breach-notification laws not working?
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2008-06-25

The breach-notification laws passed by many states have failed, so far, to produce a measurable impact on identity theft, according to a group of academic researchers that will present their findings on Thursday at the Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS).

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Breach-notification laws not working? 2008-06-27
Anonymous
Data Breach disclosure laws are kinda like safety labels/warnings. They are to increase awareness. Ignore the warnings at your peril.

They aren't meant to prevent data breaches, except by forcing companies to admit they messed up, and punish them if they don't. If they didn't exist, how many com...

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