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Nevada Expands Definition of Personal Information Starting July 1

Nevada’s definition of personal information in data security law expands July 1. It will include: a username, unique identifier or email address in combination with a password, access code, or security question and answer that would permit access to an…

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online account; medical identification or health insurance identification number; and a driver authorization card number, said a Hunton & Williams blog post Tuesday. Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval signed AB-179 into law in May, his office has said. “Although Nevada’s data security law previously excluded ‘publicly available information ... lawfully made available to the general public’ from the definition of personal information," the law firm said, the bill "narrows the scope of that exclusion, limiting it to information available ‘from federal, state or local governmental records.’”