Latest Data Privacy Headlines
All the headlines from our Data Privacy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Calif. Legislative Session Adjourns With New Privacy Law, Work Comp Reform
Sep 29 2003 // New financial privacy requirements and legislation aimed at cutting workers’ compensation costs are the two most significant public policy measures that impacted the property/casualty insurance industry during the...
Gov. Davis Signs Privacy Bill; Associations See Added Costs
Sep 8 2003 // Gov. Gray Davis signed California financial privacy legislation into law Aug. 28, enacting one of the nation’s most restrictive state privacy measures, according to the Association of California Insurance Companies...
Gov. Davis Signs Anti-Consumer Privacy Bill
Aug 28 2003 // Gov. Gray Davis signed California financial privacy legislation into law Aug. 28, enacting one of the nation’s most restrictive state privacy measures, according to the Association of California Insurance Companies...
ACIC Opposes Calif. Privacy Legislation
Aug 20 2003 // Financial privacy legislation swiftly passed the California Assembly Aug. 18 and the Senate Aug. 19, and Senate Bill 1 is expected to reach Gov. Gray Davis’ desk for his signature Aug. 20. “Uniform privacy...
Calif. Gov. Supports Speier’s SB1
Aug 18 2003 // California Governor Gray Davis made the following statement on privacy legislation in light of the upcoming deadline for passage of SB1 the financial privacy measure sponsored by Senator Jackie Speier: “I have been...
Calif. Privacy Ballot Initiative will be Long and Costly Campaign, Alliance Says
Aug 1 2003 // News that privacy advocates claim to have gathered enough valid signatures to have their Consumer Information Privacy Initiative appear on the March 2004 California primary election ballot could signal the beginning of a...
Alliance Applauds Fail of Calif. Privacy Bill
Jun 19 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers is pleased with recent privacy developments in the California Legislature. On June 17, SB 1 failed in the Assembly Banking and Finance Committee, receiving only three yes votes from the...
Onerous Calif. Financial Privacy Bill Heard in Assembly
Jun 18 2003 // A Senate bill that would reportedly create the country’s most restrictive privacy standards passed the full Senate and is pending in the Assembly, where it was heard June 17 in the Assembly Banking and Finance...
NAII Favors Adoption of MA Bill on Privacy Regulations
Apr 23 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a bulletin in favor of a Massachusetts bill giving the insurance commissioner authority to promulgate privacy regulations consistent with the federal...
Discriminatory Privacy Bill Still Circulating Calif. Legislature
Apr 21 2003 // For the past four years, the American Insurance Association (AIA) has been in a fight to avoid “a solution in search of a problem”—a financial privacy measure that has been approved by the California State...
Mont. Legislature Approves HB 205
Apr 14 2003 // Both houses of the Montana Legislature have approved HB 205, the Insurance Department’s bill to amend the state’s Insurance Information and Privacy Protection Act, according to the Alliance of American...
NAII Notes All States Have Addressed Privacy Legislation
Feb 24 2003 // Insurance companies with systems in place to meet state and Federal Privacy standards may need to do some “tweaking” to assure continued regulatory compliance, according to the National Association of...
Senate Privacy Bill Could Impede Progress in Calif. Business Climate
Feb 19 2003 // The Association of California Insurance Companies (ACIC) says a California consumer privacy bill that was set to be heard in the Senate Judiciary Committee Feb. 18 is unnecessary because current state law and department of...
NAII Notes All States Have Addressed Privacy Legislation, While Handful Have Proposals Pending
Feb 11 2003 // Insurance companies with systems in place to meet state and Federal Privacy standards may need to do some “tweaking” down the road to assure continued regulatory compliance, according to the National...
NAII Supports Proposed Customer Privacy Rules In Illinois
Oct 24 2002 // The National Association of Independent Insurers indicated that it supports a proposed privacy rule being considered by the Illinois Department of Insurance, as it will “further safeguard the personal information of...
GLBA Training
Jun 24 2002 // Syntrio Inc., a San Francisco-based provider of online training materials, released a new online course, Privacy Laws and Practices: Applying the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to the Insurance Industry, to provide information to...
AAI Urges Redrafting of Conn. Privacy Bill
May 31 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AAI) has issued a statement urging a legislative oversight committee to direct the Connecticut Insurance Department to redraft its proposed privacy regulations. “For the third time,...
AAI Opposes Senate Version of Online Privacy Bill
May 15 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers expressed its opposition to the online privacy bill scheduled for markup on May 16 in the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Sponsored by Senate Commerce Committee...
IBA West Urges Delay On Privacy Rules
Feb 18 2002 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) should delay new regulations until the Legislature decides whether or not to substantially change state privacy laws, IBA West testified recently. At a public hearing in San...
ALLIANCE QUESTIONS N.M. PRIVACY RULES
Jan 14 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers has questioned the legality of recently adopted privacy regulations in New Mexico. According to Rey Becker, president of property/casualty for the Alliance, “Earlier this year, the...
