Florida cybersecurity safe harbor bill advances

The Florida House of Representatives' Commerce Committee referred the Cybersecurity Incident Liability Act (H.B 473), to the State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee last week.

Introduced in November by Mike Giallombardo, R-Coral Gables, the chair of the state's Energy, Communications & Cybersecurity Subcommittee, the law would provide safe harbor to government agencies and a list of entities that acquire, manage and use personal information for cyber incident liability if the entity is "substantially" compliant with a cyber protection framework …

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