Over at Wired.com, Kim Zetter reviews the Security Breach Notification seminar held last Friday.  With the ever increasing number of data breaches and the increased debate over whether notification laws work, Kim’s piece is worth a gander.

Consumers caught in a national epidemic of data spills are growing numb, discarding breach notification letters as junk mail rather than acting to protect their identity, experts say.

And though most states now have laws requiring companies to warn breach victims, some serious breaches are still showing up on customer credit and bank statements before any official warning has been issued. It all begs the question: are the notification laws working?

This was the question that a number of speakers at the Security Breach Notification seminar held in Berkeley on Friday tried to answer.

See the full report at Wired.com.