California Security Breach Notification Act

Citation: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=2896452889+5+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve Cal. Civ. Code §1798.80 et seq.]

The first data breach notification law was enacted in 2002 &mdash; S.B. 1386, the

California Security Breach Notification Act. It requires any state agency, person, or business that owns or licenses computerized personal information to disclose any breach of a resident’s personal information.

S.B. 1386 was the model for subsequent data breach notification laws enacted by many states and Congress. California’s law and other similar federal and state laws require the disclosure of security breaches of personal information.