Understand such legislation. It should identify the methods, speed, delivery an content of notification. It may be unattainable for small organizations, nonprofits and educational institutions. Based upon the size of an organization would make compliance possible for all. It should also encourage organizations that collect data to be trance fernt about the use of such data. Consumers appear to be happy to give away their data and privacy to enter social media sites for the sake of convenience. Given the highly publicized breaches it is apparent that more work is needed, no matter what the size the company, certain expectations of security should be defined when data is collected and stored. Importantly it took a couple of insenity tots establish better education and breaches. It is important for us to have sishe expertise within the u. S. In conclusion i appreciate if opportunity for this dialogue. I stand by to assist you in any way i can. Cyber security and Cyber Security education i
I want to follow up on a couple of questions that the chairman asked. You make the point that preemption has sometimes been narrow. In fact, that concept of protection is that there should be preemption only if there are state laws inconsistent with federal laws and then only to the extent of the inconsistency. That is a quote from one of those statutes. In the Health Information Technology Act that principle of narrow preemption has been adopted. Has the experience than with that narrow approach to preemption that there are these horrible inconsistencies or confusion that are witnesses seem to raise of avoiding reaction . Know, senator. The concern from the state level, as you are aware, and we are assuming you guys will pass something this year it took 10 years or congress to pass a breach notification law. There are new threats out there or again, threats that specifically target a group of people, consumers in our state. Or there is a rapidly changing area. We want to be able to re
Declared a state of emergency following last decembers storm. People here are hoping that since this storm is supposed to be spread out over a few days, they wont be flooded this time. Patty dunlap is filling sandbags for her 87yearold mother faye who moved here just in time to experience the december storm which flooded her new home. I came down from palm springs, its a little different up here. December was a bit surreal, with a flooded safeway parking lot turning into a river for rafters, nearly eight inches of rain in a matter of hours caused this creek to overflow. Swamping the business district. You can see on the bottom here, the shelf, this is where the water came up to. We got pretty walloped. We had 18 inches of water that went all the way back. Came in like a tide. This time the owner is ready with sandbags bringed by the city. Officials have cleaned the creek and storm drains. Public works will be on hand. Were scheduling staff over the weekend to monitor the event and make
And storm scan three and we are going to start off, quiet the signs have life on the radar, now moving into center county, Penn State University we are seeing the snow showers, and this will eventually arrive here midday at earlier. We will warm up to flirting with 40 degrees as we start to roll role in. Already preemptively National Weather service decided to issue a wind chill advisory, i dont blame them, for poconos specifically. We will experience brutal wind chills. I will not be surprise if the rest of the region down the road get put into this advisory because it will get frigid. We have not just one but two separate batches of cold air coming. First of which comes from the first clip tore day and then behind it clipper number two comes on valentines day. As we look to the temperatures we are forecasting these are the coldest we have seen for february in the last 20 years. Hard to believe. Now we have had brutal cold blasts here too but was president happening during the month o
What in the world were you thinking . Well, clearly i wasnt thinking. U. S. Soccer star hope solo at the center of that huge firestorm speaking out for the first time this morning about her offthefield trouble and her hope for the future. And good morning, america. We have a lot to get to this wednesday morning and we begin with that american sniper verdict. The jury got the case a little after 7 30. By 10 00 they had a verdict. Eddie routh convicted of murdering chris kyle and his friend chad littlefield. Of course, this case made so famous by the movie american sniper, you see Bradley Cooper playing chris kyle right there. And six of the jurors will be joining us in an abc news exclusive taking us inside their deliberations, but first abcs ryan owens has the latest from stephenville, texas. Good morning, ryan. Reporter good morning, robin. It did not take this jury long to decide they did not buy the insanity defense. They only had the case for about 2 1 2 hours and nearly an hour of