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DEL.ICIO.USHouse backs rules on notification
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia’s House approved legislation today requiring government agencies to notify people when their Social Security numbers and other private information has been accessed by unauthorized individuals.
Senate Bill 236 adds state and local government agencies to the list of organizations that would have to notify people “in the most expedient time possible” when their “personal information” has been breached.
The bill says personal information includes Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, credit card numbers and other data.
Rep. John Lunsford (R-McDonough), who carried the bill on the House floor this afternoon, referred to how a computer disk containing data on 2.9 million Georgians recently had been lost in shipping.
State officials, who blame Dallas-based Affiliated Computer Services for the lost CD, publicly disclosed this month the disk contained names, Social Security numbers, birth dates and addresses of people on Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids, but no medical information.
ACS officials said Tuesday there is no indication that any of the information has fallen into the hands of unauthorized people.
Since the House made changes to the bill, it must go back to the Senate for consideration.
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