Passing a data security breach law is one of the most important advances the UK could make to improve internet security, according to an influential House of Lords committee.
And the government should begin consultation on the scope of such a law "as a matter of urgency", according to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.
The message is in line with silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign which has been calling for a rethink of law in this area to improve the reporting of data breaches so that companies have to reveal it when they lose sensitive data.
The Science and Technology committee said in its Personal Internet Security report that the data security breach notification law should include the following: workable definitions of data security breaches, covering both a threshold for the sensitivity of the data lost and criteria for the accessibility of that data; a mandatory and uniform central reporting system; and clear rules on form and content of notification letters, which must state the nature of the breach and provide advice on the steps that individuals should take to deal with it.
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And the government should begin consultation on the scope of such a law "as a matter of urgency", according to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee.
The message is in line with silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign which has been calling for a rethink of law in this area to improve the reporting of data breaches so that companies have to reveal it when they lose sensitive data.
The Science and Technology committee said in its Personal Internet Security report that the data security breach notification law should include the following: workable definitions of data security breaches, covering both a threshold for the sensitivity of the data lost and criteria for the accessibility of that data; a mandatory and uniform central reporting system; and clear rules on form and content of notification letters, which must state the nature of the breach and provide advice on the steps that individuals should take to deal with it.
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