Data Privacy
Feb. 27, 2015
New privacy bill would require businesses encrypt customer data
Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, and Sen. Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, announced a spate of privacy legislation Wednesday morning, including an as-yet-unwritten bill to require companies use encryption to store customer information.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
SACRAMENTO - Two California lawmakers seized upon growing calls for improved cybersecurity measures to protect consumers, pledging Wednesday to introduce a bill that would mandate data encryption by companies that store employee and customer information.
"We want to enshrine in California law what we call a reasonably prudent [encryption] standard," Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, annou...
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