The new EU directive stipulates that companies must report data breaches involving personal information to their local regulator and face fines as high as 4percentt of global turnover for the worst data breaches.
Small businesses must capture and report information, including the employer identification numbers, from every seller of anything over $600.
Increased I.R.S. scrutiny of bank accounts abroad under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, which began to take effect this year, means foreign banks must report more information on American account holders.
Under the federal education law known as Title IX, and other laws and the government guidelines for administering them, any time certain officers of a college become aware of certain forms of misconduct, including sexual assaults and harassment, they must report the information up the chain of command.
By law, every private or public-sector employer must report this information every year.
Companies must report (eco toxicological information about their chemicals, disseminated to the public domain by the European Chemicals Agency after their registration.
Thanks to Title IX, colleges and universities must report basic information about the funding of athletic programs for men and women and the participation of men in women throughout these sports.
Amongst the changes, which are intended to extend corporate democracy and bring regulation into the digital era, is a requirement that all corporations must begin reporting "information respecting diversity among the directors and among the members of senior management".
Yet it represents a significant challenge for Dodd-Frank's staunchest supporters, who denounced the new bill for, among other things, loosening the requirements on what information the industry must report to regulators about the nature of its investments.
The widely anticipated rules would expand the amount of information that researchers must report to their institutions, make some of it public, and require that more details than in the past be submitted privately to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
