Tag: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Data breach notification laws require companies to implement formal data breach notification polices that cover the procedures for incident reporting and external breach notification. Except just four states – Alabama, Kentucky, New Mexico and South Dakota, every state in the U.S. has passed a breach notification law in the recent past, following the lead of California’s landmark breach disclosure law in 2003. . Breach notification laws require companies to notify their customers about security breaches that involve personal information. Of […]