Full Text of HB0605 95th General Assembly
HB0605 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008 HB0605
Introduced 2/5/2007, by Rep. Al Riley SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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815 ILCS 530/5 |
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815 ILCS 530/10 |
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Amends the Personal Information Protection Act. Changes the definition of "breach of security of the system data" to "breach of the security of the system data or written material". Provides that the notice requirements of the Act apply to breaches of written material containing personal information. Provides that a data collector shall notify the
resident that there has been a breach of the security of the
system data or written material within 48 hours of the discovery of the breach of the
system data or written material.
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A BILL FOR
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| AN ACT concerning consumer fraud.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Personal Information Protection Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Sections 5 and 10 as follows: | 6 |
| (815 ILCS 530/5)
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| Sec. 5. Definitions. In this Act: | 8 |
| "Data Collector" may include, but is not limited to,
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| government agencies, public and private universities,
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| privately and publicly held corporations, financial
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| institutions, retail operators, and any other entity that, for | 12 |
| any purpose, handles, collects, disseminates, or otherwise
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| deals with nonpublic personal information.
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| "Breach of the security of the system data or written | 15 |
| material " means
unauthorized acquisition of computerized data | 16 |
| or written material that compromises the security, | 17 |
| confidentiality, or integrity of personal information | 18 |
| maintained by the data collector. "Breach of the security of | 19 |
| the system data" does not include good faith
acquisition of | 20 |
| personal information by an employee or agent of
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| collector for a legitimate purpose of the data
collector, | 22 |
| provided that the personal information is not used
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| purpose unrelated to the data collector's business or
subject |
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| to further unauthorized disclosure.
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| "Personal information" means an individual's first name or | 3 |
| first initial and last name in combination with any one or more
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| of the following data elements, when either the name or the | 5 |
| data elements are not encrypted or redacted:
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| (1) Social Security number. | 7 |
| (2) Driver's license number or State identification
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| card number.
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| (3) Account number or credit or debit card number, or | 10 |
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account number or credit card number in combination with
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| any required security code, access code, or password that
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| would permit access to an individual's financial account.
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| "Personal information" does not include publicly available
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| information that is lawfully made available to the general
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| public from federal, State, or local government records.
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| (Source: P.A. 94-36, eff. 1-1-06.) | 17 |
| (815 ILCS 530/10)
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| Sec. 10. Notice of Breach. | 19 |
| (a) Any data collector that owns or licenses personal | 20 |
| information concerning an Illinois resident shall notify the
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| resident at no charge that there has been a breach of the | 22 |
| security of the
system data or written material following | 23 |
| discovery or notification of the breach.
The disclosure | 24 |
| notification shall be made within 48 hours of the discovery of | 25 |
| the breach of the security of the system data or written |
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| material,
in the most
expedient time possible and without | 2 |
| unreasonable delay,
consistent with any measures necessary to | 3 |
| determine the
scope of the breach and restore the reasonable | 4 |
| integrity,
security, and confidentiality of the data system or | 5 |
| written material files .
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| (b) Any data collector that maintains material files or | 7 |
| computerized data that
includes personal information that the | 8 |
| data collector does not own or license shall notify the owner | 9 |
| or licensee of the information of any breach of the security of | 10 |
| the data immediately following discovery, if the personal | 11 |
| information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, | 12 |
| acquired by
an unauthorized person.
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| (b-5) The notification required by subsection (a) of this | 14 |
| Section may be delayed if an appropriate law enforcement agency | 15 |
| determines that notification will interfere with a criminal | 16 |
| investigation and provides the data collector with a written | 17 |
| request for the delay. However, the data collector must notify | 18 |
| the Illinois resident as soon as notification will no longer | 19 |
| interfere with the investigation.
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| (c) For purposes of this Section, notice to consumers may | 21 |
| be provided by one of the following methods:
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| (1) written notice; | 23 |
| (2) electronic notice, if the notice provided is
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| consistent with the provisions regarding electronic
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| records and signatures for notices legally required to be
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| in writing as set forth in Section 7001 of Title 15 of the |
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| (3) substitute notice, if the data collector
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| demonstrates that the cost of providing notice would exceed
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| $250,000 or that the affected class of subject persons to | 5 |
| be notified exceeds 500,000, or the data collector does not
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| have sufficient contact information. Substitute notice | 7 |
| shall consist of all of the following: (i) email notice if | 8 |
| the data collector has an email address for the subject | 9 |
| persons; (ii) conspicuous posting of the notice on the data
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| collector's web site page if the data collector maintains
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| one; and (iii) notification to major statewide media. | 12 |
| (d) Notwithstanding subsection (c), a data collector
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| maintains its own notification procedures as part of an
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| information security policy for the treatment of personal
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| information and is otherwise consistent with the timing | 16 |
| requirements of this Act, shall be deemed in compliance
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| the notification requirements of this Section if the
data | 18 |
| collector notifies subject persons in accordance with its | 19 |
| policies in the event of a breach of the security of the system | 20 |
| data or written material .
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| (Source: P.A. 94-36, eff. 1-1-06; 94-947, eff. 6-27-06.)
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