Congress needs to act, and act now, to provide rules of the road for companies facing hackers and hacktivists and nation states and kids in their basements. Capitol Hill legislators from both sides of the aisle appeared to understand that last week as they pledged to find common ground and pass laws providing a national standard for data security and breach notification in a world of interconnected things. There was talk of bipartisan approaches and points of agreement. But then the old divides surfaced, and Democrats and Republicans appeared to be still staking out their turf. Pleas for bipartisanship morphed, at least a bit, toward disagreement over how to create the data security standard; whether or how it should preempt a patchwork of state regs; when folks should be informed about breaches; and more.
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