There's no requirement for banks and other financial companies to tell customers their information has been hacked in the draft of a new data breach notification bill in Congress.
In Colorado, a House committee passed Wist's breach notification bill last month and it has moved to another committee.
States have picked up some of the slack, passing many breach notification bills.
In an e-mail sent to a victim of the breach, the billing contractor, Joe Anthony Reyna, president of Multi-Specialty Collection Services in Los Angeles, explained that his marketing vendor, Frank Corcino, had received the data directly from Stanford Hospital, converted it to a new spreadsheet and then forwarded it to a woman he was considering for a short-term job.
This year, at least 29 states are taking up consumer security breach notification bills, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
In response to previous mega-breaches, two bills have been introduced.
That followed the party's agreement to a court order last month to use all reasonable endeavours to revise its constitution so that it did not breach the equality bill in the face of a challenge to its membership policy by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Jon Kyl and the Bush White House stepped in the breach, and the bill moved strongly and sharply to the Right.
Robertson said it could be argued that Grayling was breaching the 1688 Bill of Rights by taking it upon himself, as a politician and not a judge, to inflict "cruel and unusual punishment" on literate prisoners.
A UN-backed committee has confirmed it is considering a complaint from Friends of the Earth that the government's EU withdrawal bill breached the Aarhus convention, which requires public consultation on any new environmental law.
The two groups – the3million, a grassroots organisation representing EU citizens living in the UK, and the Open Rights Group (ORG), which campaigns on privacy rights and free speech online – argue that the clause in the bill breaches the government's obligations under the EU's general data protection regulation (GDPR).
