Latest Data Privacy Headlines

All the headlines from our Data Privacy Topic Page, ordered by recency.

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 FutureThis 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, for...

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...

CALIF. DEFEATS PRIVACY BILL

Jul 16 2001 // The California Assembly Banking and Finance Committee narrowly nixed proposed legislation that would have restricted the ability of businesses to offer expanded financial services to their customers, to the relief of...

Calif. Financial Privacy Bill Revived

Jul 11 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) reported that the California State Assembly has granted a rule waiver to allow the Assembly Banking Committee to reconsider a critical financial privacy measure, SB 773, by Jackie...

Calif. Assembly Committee Defeats Privacy Bill

Jul 2 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), the California Assembly Banking and Finance Committee narrowly nixed proposed legislation that would have restricted the ability of businesses to offer...

AIA Applauds Defeat of Financial Privacy Legislation in California

Jun 29 2001 // According to the American Insurance Association (AIA), following a second lengthy hearing, the Assembly Banking Committee recently voted to kill a bill that would have interrupted the California information economy. The...

AIA Heralds New Era in Privacy Protection

Jun 28 2001 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) hailed the beginning of a new era in consumer privacy protection, confirming that insurers already have measures in place to comply with the new privacy regime resulting from the...

NAMIC Survey Shows Most States Will Not Meet GLBA Deadline

Jun 11 2001 // Less than half of the states are likely to have their own privacy rules in place by the July 1 deadline imposed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), a survey conducted by the National Association of Mutual Insurance...

NAII Calls Defeat of Privacy Bill Victory for Calif. Consumers

Jun 5 2001 // Financial privacy legislation that would have limited services to policyholders and increased costs for insurers failed to reach a majority vote Wednesday in California’s Assembly Banking & Finance Committee.At...