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+-   Nevada Businesses Must Encrypt E-Mail on 10-1-08-> on Monday September 22 2008, @12:25PM dtothes

Submitted by dtothes on Monday September 22 2008, @12:25PM
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dtothes writes "Baseline is reporting the state of Nevada has a statute about to go in effect on October 1, 2008 that will force businesses to encrypt all personally identifiable information transmitted over the Internet. The post talks to a Nevada legal expert who says the problem is that the statute is written so broadly that the law could potentially open up a ton of unintentional liability and allow for the interpretation of things like password-protected documents to be considered sufficiently encrypted. From the post:

Beyond the infrastructure impact, the statute itself looks like swiss cheese. Bryce K. Earl, a Las Vegas-based attorney with Santoro, Driggs, Walch, Kearney, Holley & Thompson, has been following the issue closely and believes there are some problems with the statute as it is on the books right now, namely the broad definition of encryption, the lack of coordination with industry standards and the unclear nature of penalties both criminal and civil.

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