Privacy and Data Security: Protecting Consumers in the Modern World

Today's hearing is also about data security, which directly implicates consumer privacy--we are reminded of this, I'm afraid, every day in the headlines. The recent security breaches at Citibank, Sony, and Epsilon show that companies are increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks that compromise the safety and privacy of
Americans. When criminals break into a database and steal credit card numbers, social security numbers, or even email addresses, they can use this information to commit identit...