Colorado Enacts Security Breach Law

Colorado has enacted a security breach law. House Bill 1119 was signed into law on April 24.

The new law requires to businesses to conduct, in good faith, a reasonable and prompt investigation into a security breach, and unless it determines that misuse of the personal information has not occurred and is not reasonably likely to occur, it must to notify the individual in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay.

Effective September 1, 2006.