Calif. Tries To Plug Retail Data Breaches

Law360, New York (June 4, 2014, 4:47 PM EDT) -- The debate is growing over the role of state legislatures in regulating merchants' storage and use of customers' credit card transaction data. In the wake of last year's Target Corp. breach, involving data from millions of credit card transactions, legislators and regulators are feeling the pressure to protect the public from data breaches by merchants. The temptation is present to enact detailed rules regarding exactly what types of data can be retained by a merchant post-transaction — and for how long — and how such data should be stored....

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