[privacy] Nevada Law Mandates Encryption of Electronically-Transmitted Personal Information

[Brian Loe]

Why the exception of facsimile? Where I worked before, in the medical
information industry, the fax was the focus of many HIPAA violation
investigations!

On 10/8/07, John Payton <john.payton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nevada has enacted a data security law that mandates encryption for
> the transmission of personal information (see Nev. Rev. Stat. §
> 597.970 (2005)).  Specifically, the Nevada encryption statute
> generally prohibits a business in Nevada from transferring "any
> personal information of a customer through an electronic
> transmission," except via facsimile, "unless the business uses
> encryption to ensure the security of electronic transmission."[1]  The
> Nevada encryption law goes into effect on October 1, 2008.
>
> More: http://mofo.com/news/updates/bulletins/12866.html