On January 30, 2014, Senators John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Chairman of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee; Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet; and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), Chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Science and Space, introduced legislation that would, for the first time, provide a federal standard for companies to safeguard consumers’ personal information throughout their systems and to quickly notify consumers if those systems are breached.
