Draw attention to. We heard a lot about the moment in our interviews and i talked talk about two things briefly, dignity and death. Its really upon us to treat the client as much dignity as possible. Youve got heavy competition from h. And r. Block and liberty taxes because they know how to treat people as customers. Part of the reason people go to h. And r. Block is because they feel so good to be there. So we need to make sure from the moment people enter the door from how the office looks but this is a dignity enhancing moment because in corporations are so profoundly attached to how they are treated when they come in the door. The second, people want to clean up their desk so they can move ahead. They dont know how to. They have ideas about how they should be prioritized. Counseling and help with understanding and what really counts for the credit score would be really thankful. Considering the political incorporation what does it allow people the opportunity to vote is that standa
Today. We will hear more about the budget from bernie sanders. He will be at the Brookings Institution outlining his economic agenda addressing things like wage growth, climate change, and text policy. Tax policy. The Political Landscape has changed with the 114th congress. Not only are there 43 new republicans and 50 new democrats in the house and 12 new republicans and one new democrat in the senate, there is also 108 women and commerce, including the first africanamerican republican in the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. Keep track of the members of congress using congressional conical on www. Cspan. Org. The congressional chronicle page has lots of information coming putting Voting Results and statistics for each session of congress. New congress, best access, on cspan, cspan 2, cspan radio and www. Cspan. Org. Cyber security breaches, cases where personal information were compromised, how the government can respond in the Technology Available for making breaches l
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
Entity that anchors the breach. Preventing such breaches, any requirement must have strong data protection. Requirements applicable to any party with access to important Consumer Financial information. Thank you. I will be happy to answer any questions you may have. Attorney general medic . Thank you, chairman moran. Members of the subcommittee. I appreciate the opportunity to testify. Data security is one of the Biggest Challenges we face as a nation. It is an ongoing struggle for all americans and companies that hold our personal information. While last years massive data breaches reawakened many in the public, breaches are not a new problem. Because of that, 10 years ago, i joined 43 attorneys general including attorney general blumenthal, in a bipartisan call for a strong, Meaningful National breach notification law. For over a decade, my office has helped individuals cleanup from Identity Theft and investigated major breaches. In 2005, i drafted illinoiss breach notification law t