美国参议院发布数据安全法案

Data-security bill advances in Senate

WASHINGTON - Businesses would have to protect credit-card accounts and other sensitive consumer information and notify them when they have been exposed to identity theft, under a bill approved today by a Senate committee.

The lucrative trade in consumers' Social Security numbers would also be curtailed under a bill approved unanimously by the Senate Commerce Committee.

The vote marks the first time Congress has taken steps to improve data security following a string of breaches that have exposed some 50 million consumers to possible identity theft.

"It's important we get this moved because none of us are going to have any privacy left if we don't," said Florida Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson.

AMTeam.org消息：随着本周数据安全法案在美国参议院通过之后，各个公司必须对客户的信用卡帐号和其他的敏感信息进行包括，采取有效的保护措施，以防这些数据被盗走。

通过社会保障号进行打折购物这种促销方式在参议院一致通过的相关法案之后也得到了禁止。

这个法案的通过标志着美国参议院已经采取了必要的行动来提高商业领域的数据安全，这是在一系列的数据安全案件发生之后，大约50 million的顾客的身份可能发生盗用的情况下出台该法案的。

一些美国国内的政界人士说，这项法案的颁布是非常重要的，因为如果我们不再采取这样的行动，那么我们将在未来的几年里不会有个人的隐私存在。