Proposed Amendment to the North Carolina Identity Theft Protection Act
In April 2019, with the introduction of House Bill 904, a bi-partisan effort was made to strengthen cyber security in North Carolina.
H.B. 904 seeks to make North Carolina’s Identity Theft Protection Act one of the strongest in the nation by broadening the definition of what constitutes a data breach, what proactive steps companies and employers must take to prevent a breach of their customers or employees’ personal information, and the penalties available to victims of data breaches, among other provisions.
