Latest Data Privacy Headlines
All the headlines from our Data Privacy Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Alliance Says New Mexico Privacy Rules Violate State Law
Jan 3 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers has questioned the legality of recently adopted privacy regulations in New Mexico. “Earlier this year, the New Mexico Legislature directed the superintendent of insurance to adopt...
Welcome to the 3rd Annual “Top Ten Stories of the Year”
Dec 24 2001 // In what became one of the most significant, traumatic and challenging years in U.S. history, the insurance industry, along with the rest of the nation, has had to come to terms with the terrorist attacks perpetrated...
Top 10 Stories of 2001
Dec 17 2001 // Recollections and Renewal: Looking Back at 2001 with an Eye to the Future This is the year that was. It is one that many people will be glad to see come to an end because the new year always brings hope—for a rebirth,...
Calif. Session Ends with Defeat of Privacy Bill, Fate of Unbalanced Workers’ Comp Bill Unknown
Sep 25 2001 // The 2001 California Legislature delivered favorable results to the insurance industry by defeating unreasonable privacy mandates, lifting restrictions on anti-fraud efforts, and approving the collection of more funds from...
CALIF. PRIVACY BILL DEFEATED
Sep 24 2001 // Following a late night debate, the California State Assembly voted to defeat a controversial financial privacy measure that would have given California the most complicated and confusing privacy law in the nation,...
Calif. State Assembly Defeats Controversial Financial Privacy Bill
Sep 18 2001 // Following a late night debate, the California State Assembly voted to defeat a controversial financial privacy measure that would have given California the most complicated and confusing privacy law in the nation, the...
NAII Says Health Information in Proposed Iowa Privacy Law Would Cause Confusion, Frustration
Aug 31 2001 // Inclusion of health information in a proposed state regulation in Iowa on consumer privacy could cause confusion and frustration for consumers and force agents to comply with two different privacy standards plus add to...
CALIF. PRIVACY BILL REVIVED
Jul 30 2001 // Following a special waiver by the California State Assembly, a previously defeated financial privacy bill authored by Jackie Speier (D-Hillsborough) was reconsidered and approved by the California Assembly Banking...
Calif. Assembly Banking Committee Approves Controversial Financial Privacy Legislation
Jul 19 2001 // According to the American Insurance Association (AIA), despite continued opposition from the financial services industry, the California Assembly Banking Committee approved the state’s most controversial financial...
