Erin Early of Lavasoft forwarded an interesting short article she wrote on U.S. data encryption laws.
33 million records.
That's the number of consumer records that have been exposed so far in 2008, a record year for data breaches, according to statistics from the Identity Theft Resource Center , which tracks breaches reported by U.S. organizations. And that count may only be the tip of the iceberg; without a federal requirement for organizations to quantify the amount of consumers affected by data breaches, the real figure is likely much higher.
