Sen. Wyden Introduces Bill to Modernize Federal Privacy Rules and Increase Penalties for Data Misuse

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“take reasonable efforts to ensure that a record that is disclosed contains the minimum amount of information necessary to accomplish the purpose of the disclosure”

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“actual damages, including nonpecuniary damages, sustained by the individual or person as a result of the refusal or failure, but in no case shall an individual or person entitled to recovery receive less than the sum of $1,000”

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“A person who commits an offense described in the previous sentence with the intent to sell, transfer, use, or disclose a record described in that sentence for commercial advantage, personal gain, or malicious harm shall be guilty of a felony and fined not more than $250,000, imprisoned for not more than 10 years, or both.”

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“The amendments made by sections 2 and 3 shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act with respect to each of the following: (1) Any use of a record by, any disclosure of a record by or to, any maintenance of a system of records by or for, any control of a system of records by”

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“or other agreement, including with another agency, for the operation by or on behalf of the agency of a system of records”