{"id":1674,"date":"2006-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/10\/19\/europe-prepares-for-data-breach-notification-legislation\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:39:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:39:47","slug":"europe-prepares-for-data-breach-notification-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/10\/19\/europe-prepares-for-data-breach-notification-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe prepares for data breach notification legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission has published proposals for a change in law that would force telecoms firms to notify regulators and customers of all breaches of data security including, for example, lost laptops and stolen backup tapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Gretton, Business Development Director for DISUK commented: &#8220;This legislation is a step in the right direction as anything that empowers the individual and gives them more information is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Identity theft is not just a problem on the Internet; it can happen in much less visible ways.  Thefts and losses of backup tapes mean that large volumes of personal information such as, mother&#8217;s maiden name, date of birth or national insurance number are exposed to potential misuse at any time in the future.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.it-observer.com\/news\/6910\/europe_prepares_data_breach_notification_legislation\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}