The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on three bills that would establish rules for notifying consumers about identity theft, a spokesperson for Sen. Patrick Leahy said. The bills scheduled for Thursday would require any companies and federal agencies that handle individuals' personal data take steps to protect that information. One of the measures, first introduced in 2005 by Leahy and Sen. Arlen Specter, would criminalize concealing data breaches, with fines and prison sentences of up to five years. The scheduled votes follow a report issued last week by a federal interagency task force that called for the...
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