,,,Kansans at Risk: Strengthened Data Breach Notification Laws as a Deterrent to Reckless Data Storage

Abstract

Data collection provides attractive opportunities for businesses to improve services, enhance marketing efforts, and generate revenue through data sharing practices.1 As a result, businesses today are collecting mass quantities of data, leading to devastating data breaches.2 Juniper Research projects that United States-based breaches will account for the majority of all data breaches in the world by 2023 because of data stockpiling practices.3 Consumers, businesses, and lawmakers are struggling to adapt to an ever-changing technological landscape. Today, data breaches are inevitable.4 How can businesses address the threat of hackers with the means to change, adapt, and persist? Of course,