Latest Data Privacy Headlines
All the headlines from our Data Privacy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Alliance Says New Mexico Privacy Rules Violate State Law
Jan 3 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers has questioned the legality of recently adopted privacy regulations in New Mexico. “Earlier this year, the New Mexico Legislature directed the superintendent of insurance to adopt...
Welcome to the 3rd Annual “Top Ten Stories of the Year”
Dec 24 2001 // In what became one of the most significant, traumatic and challenging years in U.S. history, the insurance industry, along with the rest of the nation, has had to come to terms with the terrorist attacks perpetrated...
Top 10 Stories of 2001
Dec 17 2001 // Recollections and Renewal: Looking Back at 2001 with an Eye to the Future This is the year that was. It is one that many people will be glad to see come to an end because the new year always brings hope—for a rebirth,...
Calif. Session Ends with Defeat of Privacy Bill, Fate of Unbalanced Workers’ Comp Bill Unknown
Sep 25 2001 // The 2001 California Legislature delivered favorable results to the insurance industry by defeating unreasonable privacy mandates, lifting restrictions on anti-fraud efforts, and approving the collection of more funds from...
CALIF. PRIVACY BILL DEFEATED
Sep 24 2001 // Following a late night debate, the California State Assembly voted to defeat a controversial financial privacy measure that would have given California the most complicated and confusing privacy law in the nation,...
Calif. State Assembly Defeats Controversial Financial Privacy Bill
Sep 18 2001 // Following a late night debate, the California State Assembly voted to defeat a controversial financial privacy measure that would have given California the most complicated and confusing privacy law in the nation, the...
NAII Says Health Information in Proposed Iowa Privacy Law Would Cause Confusion, Frustration
Aug 31 2001 // Inclusion of health information in a proposed state regulation in Iowa on consumer privacy could cause confusion and frustration for consumers and force agents to comply with two different privacy standards plus add to...
CALIF. PRIVACY BILL REVIVED
Jul 30 2001 // Following a special waiver by the California State Assembly, a previously defeated financial privacy bill authored by Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough) was reconsidered and approved by the California Assembly Banking...
Calif. Assembly Banking Committee Approves Controversial Financial Privacy Legislation
Jul 19 2001 // According to the American Insurance Association (AIA), despite continued opposition from the financial services industry, the California Assembly Banking Committee approved the state’s most controversial financial...
CALIF. DEFEATS PRIVACY BILL
Jul 16 2001 // The California Assembly Banking and Finance Committee narrowly nixed proposed legislation that would have restricted the ability of businesses to offer expanded financial services to their customers, to the relief of...
Calif. Financial Privacy Bill Revived
Jul 11 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) reported that the California State Assembly has granted a rule waiver to allow the Assembly Banking Committee to reconsider a critical financial privacy measure, SB 773, by Jackie...
Calif. Assembly Committee Defeats Privacy Bill
Jul 2 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), the California Assembly Banking and Finance Committee narrowly nixed proposed legislation that would have restricted the ability of businesses to offer...
AIA Applauds Defeat of Financial Privacy Legislation in California
Jun 29 2001 // According to the American Insurance Association (AIA), following a second lengthy hearing, the Assembly Banking Committee recently voted to kill a bill that would have interrupted the California information economy. The...
AIA Heralds New Era in Privacy Protection
Jun 28 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) hailed the beginning of a new era in consumer privacy protection, confirming that insurers already have measures in place to comply with the new privacy regime resulting from the...
NAMIC Survey Shows Most States Will Not Meet GLBA Deadline
Jun 11 2001 // Less than half of the states are likely to have their own privacy rules in place by the July 1 deadline imposed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), a survey conducted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance...
NAII Calls Defeat of Privacy Bill Victory for Calif. Consumers
Jun 5 2001 // Financial privacy legislation that would have limited services to policyholders and increased costs for insurers failed to reach a majority vote Wednesday in California’s Assembly Banking & Finance Committee. At...
Mo. Governor Signs Consumer Privacy Bill
May 31 2001 // Missouri Gov. Bill Holden recently signed HB 801, enabling the state Insurance Commissioner to adopt consumer privacy regulations consistent with, but not more stringent than, the federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act...
Maine Enacts Financial Privacy Bill
May 31 2001 // Maine Governor Angus King signed into law a financial services privacy bill (LD 1640), which is, according to the American Insurance Association (AIA), consistent with the federal privacy regulations in Title V of the...
Most States Will Not Meet GLBA Deadline, NAMIC Survey Says
May 22 2001 // Less than half of the states are likely to have their own privacy rules in place by the July 1 deadline imposed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), a survey conducted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance...
House Subcommittee May Move Privacy Bill Forward
May 8 2001 // As the U.S. House of Representatives Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee prepares to mark up privacy legislation, the Alliance of American Insurers reiterated its...
