“Whether or not you view the passage of California's SB 1386 data privacy law in 2003 as a watershed moment in the information security world, few can argue that its enactment significantly changed the infosec playing field,” writes Randy Sabett for Search Security. Sabett predicts that the trend started by SB 1386 “of increasingly proactive and granular state data privacy laws will continue to evolve” by focusing on the obligations of stakeholders—mainly those that are collecting the data, and he also expects to see federal privacy legislation. “For now though, it seems that there are too many stakeholders with varied interests to get an ‘omnibus-style’ bill on the books.”
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