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“today, I am reintroducing the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act. The recent data breach at Target involving the debit and credit card data of as many as 40 million customers during the Christmas holidays is a reminder that developing a comprehensive national strategy to protect data privacy and cybersecurity remains 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 Franken, Schumer and Blumenthal for cosponsoring this important privacy legislation. When I first introduced this bill 9 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 numerous times this legislation has languished on the Senate calendar. In the meantime, the dangers to Americans' privacy, economic prosperity and national security posed by data breaches have not gone away. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, more than 662 million records have been involved in data security breaches since 2005. According to Verizon's 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report, there were more than 600 publicly disclosed data breaches last year. These data security breaches have become all too common and these cyberthreats have placed Americans' privacy rights at great risk.…”