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“today, I am pleased to reintroduce the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act. The recent and troubling data breaches at Sony, Epsilon and Lockheed Martin on U.S. Government computers is clear evidence that developing a comprehensive national strategy to protect data privacy and cybersecurity is one of the most challenging and important issues facing our Nation. The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act will help to meet this challenge, by better protecting Americans from the growing threats of data breaches and identity theft. I thank Senators Schumer and Cardin for cosponsoring this important privacy legislation. When I first introduced this bill six years ago, I had high hopes of bringing urgently needed data privacy reforms to the American people. Although the Judiciary Committee favorably reported this bill three times--in 2005, 2007, and again in 2009--the legislation languished on the Senate calendar. While the Congress has waited to act, the dangers to our privacy, economic prosperity and national security posed by data breaches have not gone away. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, more than 533 million records have been involved in data security breaches since 2005. Just last week, Google announced that the Gmail accounts for hundreds of its users, including senior U.S. Government officials, have been hacked in an apparent state-sponsored cyberattack.…”