Business groups call for data breach law

Industry groups called on Congress to set a national data breach notification requirement at a House hearing.

Businesses rarely urge Congress to regulate them more, but the witnesses explained that the current patchwork of state laws is burdensome to comply with. "State laws often vary needlessly and in some cases don’t make sense," Kevin M. Richards, senior vice president of federal government affairs for TechAmerica, said during the hearing of the House Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade. “These compliance obligations are particularly burdensome, however, for the small- to medium-size business," Dan Liutikas, chief legal officer for CompTIA, testified.