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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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NOT SHOWN - Breach-notification laws not working? 2008-06-27
Anonymous
Apparently the study did not investigate whether consumers who were exposed to a breach suffered reduced harm.

That is the real motivation for breach notification legislation, not reducing breach occurance.

The researchers missed the entire point! So much for their insight......

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