Europe Breach Notification Law Coming?

By Thomas Smedinghoff (Wildman, Harrold LLP)
Excerpt from Global Intellectual Property
Asset Management Report
published by WorldTrade Executive, Inc.

The European Union, along with
several other countries, appears to be moving toward
a security breach notification requirement.

The European Commission recently published a
proposal to amend the Privacy and Electronic
Communications Directive to require providers
of “publicly available electronic communications
services” that suffer a data breach to notify subscribers
whose personal information has been
compromised.

Proposals for breach notification
laws have also recently been made in Canada,
the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. See Proposed
Directive at http://ec.europa.eu/
information_society/policy/ecomm/doc/library/
proposals/dir_citizens_rights_en.pdf.

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