The February 2017 Update – The Mintz Matrix

As our readers know we maintain a summary of U.S. state data breach notification laws, which we refer to as the "Mintz Matrix." Our latest update is available here, and it should be part of your incident response "toolbox" and part of your planning.

During 2016, amendments to breach notification laws in five states went into effect (California, Nebraska, Oregon, Rhode Island and Tennessee). And by the end of last year, well over twenty states had introduced or were considering new regulations or amendments to their existing security breach laws. We expect there to continue to be significant regulatory activity in the data security space during 2017. As always, we will keep you abreast of changes and will release updated versions of our Mintz Matrix to keep pace with developments in the states.