http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2266549/breach-reporting-should By Dan Worth V3.co.uk 15 Jul 2010 Legal experts have called for the mandatory reporting of all data breaches to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), in order to bring more clarity to the amount of data being lost and improve efforts to prevent breaches. Stewart Room, a partner covering privacy and information at legal firm Field Fisher Waterhouse, said at a roundtable event that mandatory reporting is necessary to stop companies attempting to "bury bad news". "Many firms we deal with often decide not to report data breaches to the ICO as they are not obliged to report it under law, yet could suffer retrospective punishment despite admitting the loss," he said. "As such they take a calculated risk that it will not be discovered, and rely on the fallback that, if they were discovered not to have disclosed the breach, they are not actually required to anyway under current law." [...] _________________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2010, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 24-29th, offering over 60 training sessions and 11 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit http://www.blackhat.comReceived on Thu Jul 15 2010 - 22:45:27 PDT
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