Senator Introduces Online Security Bill

Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, introduced a new bill yesterday that aims to protect citizens' personal information from online data breaches. According to the bill, companies that are careless with customers' information would also be punished.

"The goal of the proposed law is essentially to hold accountable the companies and entities that store personal information and personal data and to deter data breaches," Senator Blumenthal said in a phone interview. "While looking at past data breaches, I've been struck with how many are preventable."

If the new bill passes, Senator Blumenthal said, customers would be able to sue companies, like Sony, that do not take adequate precautions.

"The Sony data breach has became a poster child of why we need this law," he said. "We were working on this legislation well before that data breach occurred, but Sony is a good example of why this law should exist."

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