On March 24, the Tennessee governor signed S.B. 2005, which requires businesses and government agencies in Tennessee to notify state citizens affected by data breaches within 45 days of discovering a breach. The bill also expands state breach notification requirements to cover breaches of personal information regardless of whether the information was encrypted. The bill goes into effect on July 1.
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