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Kansas

12 of 14 named instruments researched to a stage, across five of the ten areas of law we track: 12 in force. As of .

When each starts9 of 12 carry a date, 3 do not. Earlier is before 2014.
Before 2014: 2 instruments (2 in force) earlier 2014: 4 instruments (4 in force) 2015: 0 instruments ’15 2016: 1 instrument (1 in force) 2017: 0 instruments 2018: 0 instruments 2019: 0 instruments 2020: 0 instruments ’20 2021: 0 instruments 2022: 0 instruments 2023: 0 instruments 2024: 1 instrument (1 in force) 2025: 0 instruments 2026: 1 instrument (1 in force) ’26 today

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  1. AI law 1
  2. Privacy law 7
  3. Scraping law 1
  4. Cybersecurity law 2
  5. Communications law not researched
  6. Content moderation law not researched
  7. Product and AI liability law not researched
  8. Digital accessibility law not researched
  9. Age gating law 1
  10. Reuse law

AI law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (227 words)

Kansas has enacted two narrow artificial-intelligence statutes, both outside the consumer AI-transparency model other states use, and only one of them binds a private actor.

Signed , 2025 Kan. Sess. Laws ch. 84 bars any state-agency-owned or state-issued electronic device from accessing an artificial intelligence platform of concern (DeepSeek by name, or any AI model owned or controlled by a country of concern: China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, or Venezuela, explicitly excluding Taiwan), requires state agency networks to block such access, and requires an agency already using such a platform to deactivate and delete its account, subject to an exception for law-enforcement or cybersecurity-investigation activities.

2025 Kan. Sess. Laws ch. 120 (HB 2183), effective , amended Kansas's sexual-exploitation-of-a-child, unlawful-transmission, and breach-of-privacy statutes to expressly cover images produced or altered by artificial intelligence: an artificially generated visual depiction indistinguishable from a real child, or morphed from a real child's image, is now itself sexual exploitation of a child, and non-consensual dissemination of an intimate image of an identifiable adult now expressly includes one created, altered, or modified by artificial intelligence.

Kansas has no consumer-facing AI-transparency, chatbot-disclosure, or high-risk-system statute of the kind Colorado and Utah have enacted; the Kansas Consumer Protection Act's general deceptive-acts prohibition, K.S.A. 50-626, remains available against AI-related consumer deception on the same non-AI-specific terms as any other deceptive practice.

AI prohibited practices

AI-generated and AI-altered images in child exploitation and non-consensual dissemination offenses

K.S.A. 21-5510, 21-5611, 21-6101 (as amended by 2025 Kan. Sess. Laws ch. 120, HB 2183)official Kansas Statutes Annotated text, Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

K.S.A. 21-5510(a)(2)(B) separately criminalizes possessing an artificially generated visual depiction, defined as an obscene image produced through computer software, digital manipulation, or other means that appears to depict a child under 18 engaging in sexually explicit conduct, including one indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image, or generated without any actual child's involvement, with intent to arouse or gratify sexual desire; this is a severity level 5 person felony.

K.S.A. 21-5611's definition of visual depiction for the unlawful-transmission-of-a-child's-image offense was extended to include any item that has been created, in whole or in part, altered or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means to appear to depict or purport to depict an identifiable child, regardless of whether such identifiable child was involved in the creation of the original image.

K.S.A. 21-6101(a)(8), the breach-of-privacy offense for non-consensual dissemination of an intimate image, was extended on the same terms to reach any videotape, photograph, film or image that has been created, in whole or in part, altered or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means to appear to depict or purport to depict such identifiable person, regardless of whether such identifiable person was involved in the creation of the original image. This amendment, 2025 Kan. Sess. Laws ch. 120 (HB 2183), became effective .

What it requires

Privacy law7 instruments, 7 in force

Research summary (147 words)

Kansas has no comprehensive consumer personal-data statute.

Its privacy law is sectoral: the Kansas Breach Notification Act (K.S.A. 50-7a01 to 50-7a02) requires notice to affected residents without a fixed numeric deadline and to the Attorney General, with no biometric element in its personal information definition; the Student Data Privacy Act (K.S.A. 72-6312 to 72-6320) requires a school district to obtain written parental or adult-student consent before collecting a K-12 student's biometric data and layers its own immediate breach-notice duty for student data; and a genetic-testing insurance-underwriting statute (K.S.A. 40-2259) bars health-benefit insurers from conditioning coverage or rates on a genetic test result.

No provision creates a private right of action; enforcement runs to the Attorney General (and, for insurers, the insurance commissioner) or, for student data, the Attorney General or a district attorney seeking injunctive relief. Kansas has not adopted the NAIC Insurance Data Security Model Law.

Breach notification

Kansas Breach Notification Act, notice of security breach

K.S.A. 50-7a02(a)-(f)official Kansas statute text, Kansas Statutes Annotated, Office of Revisor of Statutes

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A person conducting business in Kansas, or a government, governmental subdivision, or agency that owns or licenses computerized personal information, must conduct a good-faith, reasonable, and prompt investigation on learning of a suspected breach and, if misuse occurred or is reasonably likely, give notice to the affected Kansas resident as soon as possible, in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay.

The codified text sets no fixed numeric deadline, despite secondary-source claims of a 45-day figure, which does not appear anywhere in K.S.A. 50-7a02. Personal information is a name combined with a Social Security number, driver's license or state ID number, or financial account or card number with access credentials, and excludes publicly available government-record information; it does not reach biometric identifiers.

Notice to each nationwide consumer reporting agency is required when more than 1,000 consumers are affected at one time. Enacted 2006 (L. 2006, ch. 149, sec. 4), and the official history note gives July 1 as the day the section took effect.

What it requires

Student Data Privacy Act, breach notice for student data

K.S.A. 72-6318official Kansas statute text, Kansas Statutes Annotated, Office of Revisor of Statutes

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Layers a narrower, immediate breach-notice duty on top of the general Kansas Breach Notification Act: any entity with access to student data must immediately notify the affected student or the student's parent or guardian of a breach or unauthorized disclosure of student data, with no numeric threshold or deadline given beyond "immediately".

What it requires

Enforcement supervision

Kansas Breach Notification Act, enforcement

K.S.A. 50-7a02(g)-(h)official Kansas statute text, Kansas Statutes Annotated, Office of Revisor of Statutes

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

The Kansas Attorney General may bring an action in law or equity to address a violation of the Breach Notification Act, except that a violation by an insurance company is enforced solely by the Insurance Commissioner. No provision creates a private right of action, and no clause deems a violation an unfair trade practice under the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, K.S.A. 50-626, which is a freestanding backstop with no textual link to this Act.

What it requires

Student Data Privacy Act, enforcement

K.S.A. 72-6317official Kansas statute text, Kansas Statutes Annotated, Office of Revisor of Statutes

In force since . Binds government bodies.

What this law does

The Attorney General or any district attorney may enforce K.S.A. 72-6312 through 72-6319 by bringing an action in a court of competent jurisdiction and may seek injunctive relief against any educational agency, its employee or agent, or any other entity in possession of student data. Government enforcement only, injunctive relief, no damages provision, and no private right of action.

What it requires

Sensitive categories

Genetic testing nondiscrimination in health-benefit insurance underwriting

K.S.A. 40-2259official Kansas statute text, Kansas Statutes Annotated, Office of Revisor of Statutes

In force. Binds private bodies.

What this law does

Bars a health-benefit insurer from requiring, requesting, or using an individual's genetic test results to condition coverage, set rates, or adjust premiums. The restriction does not apply to a life, disability-income, or long-term-care insurer, though even those insurers face a narrower after-acquired-use restriction. This is an insurance-underwriting nondiscrimination statute, not a data-processing or retention duty, and it does not define sensitive data as a category.

The official history note names two acts, L. 1997, ch. 190, § 14 and L. 2010, ch. 108, § 4, and no day on which the section as described came into force has been located.

What it requires

Student Data Privacy Act, biometric data collection consent

K.S.A. 72-6315official Kansas statute text, Kansas Statutes Annotated, Office of Revisor of Statutes

In force since . Binds government bodies.

What this law does

No school district may collect biometric data from a student, or use a device or mechanism to assess a student's physiological or emotional state, without the written consent of an adult student or the parent or legal guardian of a minor student, K.S.A. 72-6315.

What it requires

Student Data Privacy Act, definitions of biometric data

K.S.A. 72-6313official Kansas statute text, Kansas Statutes Annotated, Office of Revisor of Statutes

In force since . Binds government bodies.

What this law does

The Student Data Privacy Act defines biometric data, K.S.A. 72-6313(b), as one or more measurable biological or behavioral characteristics usable for automated recognition of an individual, such as fingerprints, retina and iris patterns, voiceprints, DNA sequence, facial characteristics, and handwriting.

The definition never mentions a photograph, video, or audio recording in either an inclusion or exclusion clause; there is no clause imposing a recording-derived exclusion and none clawing one back, so whether an identifier derived from a recording is covered cannot be determined from this text.

What it requires

Scraping law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (259 words)

Kansas's general computer-crime statute, K.S.A. 21-5839, reaches automated web access in a way comparable to a peer state such as Arizona: alongside three paragraphs requiring an added element (intent to defraud, or knowing damage, alteration, destruction, copying, disclosure, or taking possession without authorization or in excess of it), paragraph (a)(5) separately criminalizes knowingly and without authorization accessing, or attempting to access, any computer, computer system, social networking website, computer network, or computer software, program, documentation, data, or property, with no further intent element required, a bare unauthorized-access offense standing on its own, though Kansas grades it only as a class A nonperson misdemeanor rather than a felony.

Nothing in the statute's text exempts ordinary, non-disruptive automated access to a publicly available page from the authorization requirement, and no reported Kansas case applying section 21-5839 to an automated web-scraping or bulk-data-collection fact pattern was located.

A claim-of-right defense (property or services appropriated openly and avowedly under a claim of title made in good faith) is available for the damage-based paragraphs but is not extended to the bare unauthorized-access paragraph. Kansas has no comprehensive consumer privacy statute reaching scraped public personal data at the state level; its Breach Notification Act and Student Data Privacy Act are sectoral and are covered under the privacy topic, not restated here.

Terms-of-service enforceability rests on ordinary Kansas contract law, with no statutory modification located. Copyright, text-and-data-mining, database rights, unfair competition, and robots.txt's legal weight raise only the federal and common-law questions the national document already covers; Kansas adds no state-specific statute on any of them.

Computer misuse

Unlawful acts concerning computers (Kansas's computer-crime statute)

K.S.A. 21-5839official Kansas Statutes Annotated text, Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Subsection (a) lists five ways to commit the offense. Paragraphs (1) through (3) require an added element: knowing, unauthorized damage, modification, alteration, destruction, copying, disclosure, or taking possession of a computer, computer system, computer network, or other property (paragraph 1), a fraud scheme (paragraph 2), or the same conduct as paragraph (1) but done in excess of authorization rather than without it (paragraph 3).

Paragraph (4) criminalizes knowingly and without authorization disclosing a password, code, or other means of access to a computer, computer network, social networking website, or personal electronic content.

Paragraph (5) separately criminalizes knowingly and without authorization accessing, or attempting to access, any computer, computer system, social networking website, computer network, or computer software, program, documentation, data, or property, with no further intent element beyond knowledge and lack of authorization, a bare unauthorized-access offense standing on its own.

A violation of paragraphs (1) through (3) is a severity level 8 nonperson felony, rising to a severity level 5 nonperson felony where the victim's monetary loss exceeds $100,000; a violation of paragraph (4) or (5) is a class A nonperson misdemeanor. It is a defense to a paragraph (1) through (3) prosecution that the property or services were appropriated openly and avowedly under a claim of title made in good faith. The provisions this entry describes came into force on different days.

What it requires

Cybersecurity law2 instruments, 2 in force

Research summary (346 words)

Kansas's private-sector security-law posture rests on one enacted baseline statute rather than a product-security, sector-specific, or safe-harbor regime: K.S.A. 50-6,139b, part of and supplemental to the Kansas Consumer Protection Act (History: L. 2016, ch. 103, section 2; effective ), requires any holder of personal information, a term defined broadly enough to include a government or governmental subdivision alongside a private business, to implement and maintain reasonable safeguards and to destroy unneeded records containing personal information, enforceable only by the Kansas Attorney General as an unconscionable act or practice with a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation and no private right of action.

Kansas has not enacted a conditioned cybersecurity safe-harbor act of the kind Utah, Ohio, Iowa, and Connecticut have passed, an affirmative defense to a data-breach claim available to a business that adopts a named security framework: the closest instrument, the Kansas financial institutions information security act (K.S.A. 9-551 to 9-554, enacted 2023), is a mandatory information-security-program duty rather than a liability shield, and it binds a financial-sector role, a credit services organization, mortgage company, supervised lender, money transmitter, trust company, or technology-enabled fiduciary financial institution.

No enacted Kansas statute is confirmed in the primary text and searches consulted here to set security requirements a connected device or software product must meet before or after it is placed on the market, comparable to California's or Oregon's connected-device statutes or the Cyber Resilience Act, and none imposes a general private-sector duty to report an exploited vulnerability or a security incident to an authority or to users: the state's own incident-reporting duty, K.S.A. 75-7244, binds a public entity and a government contractor handling state networks or systems, and is filed as a row of its own with no activity flag.

Kansas's breach-notification statute, the Kansas Consumer Information Security Breach Notification Act at K.S.A. 50-7a01 through 50-7a04, is this jurisdiction's privacy-topic row rather than repeated here. Section 75-7244 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated requires a public entity to notify the Kansas information security office within 12 hours after discovery of a significant cybersecurity incident.

Security baseline statutes

Kansas Consumer Protection Act, reasonable security and records-destruction duty for holders of personal information

K.S.A. 50-6,139bofficial Kansas Statutes Annotated text, Kansas Office of the Revisor of Statutes

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Any holder of personal information, defined to include any individual, partnership, corporation, trust, estate, cooperative, association, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or other entity that in the ordinary course of business collects, maintains, or possesses another person's personal information, must implement and maintain reasonable procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information and exercise reasonable care to protect it from unauthorized access, use, modification or disclosure.

Compliance with another federal or state law or regulation governing the same procedures and practices is deemed compliance with this safeguards duty, and failure to comply with that other law is prima facie evidence of a violation.

Unless federal law requires otherwise, a holder must also take reasonable steps to destroy or arrange for the destruction of records containing personal information it no longer intends to maintain or possess, by shredding, erasing, or otherwise rendering the information unreadable. A holder has an affirmative defense to a violation of the destruction duty where the failure could not reasonably have been foreseen despite the holder's exercise of reasonable care in selecting a destruction method.

The defense is also available where the holder had a bona fide written or electronic records management policy reasonably designed to prevent the violation, its employees received training on the policy, the violation was a good faith error, and no reasonable likelihood exists that it may cause, enable or contribute to identity theft or identity fraud.

Each violation of this section is an unconscionable act or practice under the Kansas Consumer Protection Act's unconscionability provision, section 50-627, with each undestroyed record its own separate violation. Only the Kansas Attorney General may enforce this section. The Attorney General may seek a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation under the Act's civil-penalties provision, section 50-636. The section itself creates no private right of action.

What it requires

Vulnerability and incident reporting

Kansas Cybersecurity Act, notification of a significant cybersecurity incident by a public entity or government contractor

K.S.A. 75-7244Official text of Kansas Statutes Annotated section 75-7244, Kansas Office of the Revisor of Statutes

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A public entity that has a significant cybersecurity incident must notify the Kansas information security office within 12 hours after discovery of the incident. A government contractor with a significant cybersecurity incident involving state personal information, confidential information, networks or information systems must notify the office within 72 hours after it reasonably believes the incident occurred.

A government contractor must notify the office within 12 hours after a determination during the investigation that the state's information, networks or systems were directly impacted. An incident involving election data must also be reported to the secretary of state within the same time period. A significant cybersecurity incident is one that results in or is likely to result in financial loss or demonstrable harm to public confidence or public health and safety in the state of Kansas.

The act that added the section was approved , and takes effect from and after its publication in the statute book.

What it requires

Age gating law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (72 words)

Kansas has required age verification for adult websites since 2024, backed by both attorney general enforcement and a private right of action. An app store accountability bill requiring age verification and parental consent for app downloads by minors passed the Senate in February 2026 and cleared a House committee in March 2026 but died without a House floor vote. No social media minor-access law or design code law has advanced past introduction.

Where nothing was found1 area of law

These areas of law were researched here and no instrument was recorded. Each finding says what the research checked, as of the date under it. It describes our search, not a guarantee that no such law exists.

Reuse law

Kansas has no press-publisher neighbouring right, no mandatory platform-to-publisher bargaining code, and no reported state-court decision addressing hot-news misappropriation, snippet reproduction, or the framing or linking of news content. No bill comparable to California's Journalism Preservation Act or the federal Journalism Competition and Preservation Act was located in the 2025-2026 Kansas legislative session.

The Kansas Consumer Protection Act, K.S.A. 50-626, prohibits deceptive acts or practices in a consumer transaction but names no provision reaching reproduction, aggregation, or framing of journalism. Federal copyright law, including 17 U.S.C. Section 107 fair use and the case law already covered in the national document, applies of its own force in Kansas and is not restated here.

As of .

Case law

  • No current case law for Kansas AI law
  • No current case law for Kansas privacy law
  • No current case law for Kansas scraping law
  • No current case law for Kansas cybersecurity law
  • No current case law for Kansas communications law
  • No current case law for Kansas content moderation law
  • No current case law for Kansas product and AI liability law
  • No current case law for Kansas digital accessibility law
  • No current case law for Kansas age gating law
  • No current case law for Kansas reuse law

Reporting clocks that run here19 instruments

The instruments whose obligation lines set a deadline for reporting an incident, a vulnerability or a personal-data breach, each deadline read from the sentence that carries it and listed shortest first. The law of Kansas comes first, then the law of the bodies above it that applies here.

Each flag is one law, and a link to it. Read down the scale: the clocks document's time axis, with the empty stretches shortened so the deadlines sit close. Flags on one line set the same duty at the same deadline, and the laws behind them are named to the right, with what each clock counts from.

1 hour
Incident notificationsecurity law
4 hours
Incident notificationsecurity law
8 hours
Incident notificationsecurity law
36 hours
4 business days
Incident notificationsecurity law
5 business days
Incident notificationsecurity law
7 business days
Breach notificationprivacy law
30 days
Incident notificationsecurity law
Breach notificationprivacy law
Safety-incident reportfrontier-model AI law
60 days
Breach notificationprivacy law
The deadlines above on one time axis, shortest at the top. The axis keeps its order and, between neighbors, its proportion, but a stretch with no deadline on it is shortened, so the hour marks on the left are what say how far apart two stations really are. Beside each action, the laws that set it, what each counts from, and a status where the law is not yet in force. The List tab has the same data in full, with the sentences.

The law of Kansas

12 hours72 hours

Kansas Cybersecurity Act, notification of a significant cybersecurity incident by a public entity or government contractor

K.S.A. 75-7244security law, in force

The sentences the clocks are read from

A public entity that has a significant cybersecurity incident must notify the Kansas information security office within 12 hours after discovery.

A government contractor with a significant cybersecurity incident that involves the confidentiality, integrity or availability of personal information or confidential information provided by the state, or of networks or information systems operated by or on behalf of the state, must notify the Kansas information security office within 72 hours after it reasonably believes the incident occurred, or within 12 hours after a determination during the investigation that such information, networks or systems were directly impacted.

as soon as possible

Kansas Breach Notification Act, notice of security breach

K.S.A. 50-7a02(a)-(f)privacy law, in force since

The sentence the clocks are read from

Give notice to each affected Kansas resident as soon as possible, in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, if the investigation shows misuse occurred or is reasonably likely. There is no fixed numeric deadline in the statute; do not rely on a 45-day figure some secondary sources describe.

The law of the United States, which applies in Kansas

1 hour4 hours8 hours24 hours

NRC cyber security event notifications by nuclear power plant licensees

NRC cyber security event notifications, 10 CFR 73.77security law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

Notify the NRC Headquarters Operations Center via the Emergency Notification System within one hour after discovery of a cyberattack that adversely impacted safety-related or important-to-safety functions, security functions, or emergency preparedness functions (including offsite communications), or that compromised support systems and equipment resulting in adverse impacts to those functions.

Also notify within one hour after discovery of a cyberattack that adversely impacted the safety, security, and emergency preparedness functions performed by digital assets described in 10 CFR 73.77(a)(1)(ii).

Notify the NRC Headquarters Operations Center within four hours after discovery of a cyberattack that could have caused such an adverse impact, after discovery of a suspected or actual cyberattack initiated by personnel with physical or electronic access to the systems in scope, or after notifying a local, State, or other Federal agency of an event related to your cyber security program that does not otherwise require notification.

Notify the NRC Headquarters Operations Center within eight hours after receipt or collection of information regarding observed behavior, activities, or statements that may indicate intelligence gathering or pre-operational planning related to a cyberattack against the systems in scope.

Use the site corrective action program to record vulnerabilities, weaknesses, failures and deficiencies in your cyber security program, and the notifications you make, within twenty-four hours of their discovery.

24 hours72 hours

Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA)

6 U.S.C. 681-681g (CIRCIA)security law, enacted, not yet in force

The sentences the clocks are read from

Once the final rule takes effect, report a covered cyber incident to the Agency not later than 72 hours after your organization reasonably believes that the covered cyber incident has occurred.

Once the final rule takes effect, report a ransom payment to the Agency not later than 24 hours after your organization makes the payment, even where the underlying ransomware attack is not itself a covered cyber incident.

Once the final rule takes effect, promptly submit an update to a previously submitted covered cyber incident report whenever substantial new or different information becomes available or a ransom payment is later made, continuing until your organization notifies the Agency that the incident has concluded and been fully mitigated and resolved, and preserve data relevant to the incident or payment under the procedures the final rule establishes.

24 hours5 business days30 days

SEC Regulation SCI: notification of SCI events to the Commission and to members

SEC Regulation SCI SCI event notices, 17 CFR 242.1002(b) and (c)security law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

Upon any responsible SCI personnel having a reasonable basis to conclude that an SCI event has occurred, begin appropriate corrective action and notify the Commission of the SCI event immediately.

Within 24 hours of that conclusion, submit a written notification to the Commission, made on a good faith, best efforts basis, that describes the SCI event and the systems affected and, to the extent available, your assessment of the market participants potentially affected, the potential impact on the market, and the steps you have taken, are taking or plan to take.

If the SCI event is resolved and the investigation closed within 30 calendar days, submit a final written notification within five business days after resolution. If not, submit an interim written notification within 30 calendar days after the event, and a final one within five business days after resolution and closure.

36 hours

Computer-Security Incident Notification Requirements for Banking Organizations and Their Bank Service Providers

12 CFR Part 53 (OCC); 12 CFR Part 225, Subpart N (Federal Reserve Board); 12 CFR Part 304, Subpart C (FDIC)security law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

If your organization is a banking organization, notify your primary federal banking regulator, the OCC, the Federal Reserve Board, or the FDIC, whichever supervises it, about a notification incident, as soon as possible and no later than 36 hours after your organization determines that a notification incident has occurred.

A notification incident is the subset of computer-security incidents that has materially disrupted or degraded, or is reasonably likely to materially disrupt or degrade, your ability to serve customers, a business line, or an operation whose failure would threaten the financial stability of the United States, so a computer-security incident that falls short of that threshold does not by itself start this clock.

If your organization is a bank service provider, notify at least one bank-designated point of contact at each affected banking organization customer as soon as possible after your organization determines that it has experienced a computer-security incident that has materially disrupted or degraded, or is reasonably likely to materially disrupt or degrade, covered services provided to that banking organization for a period of four hours or more.

This duty carries a standard, as soon as possible, rather than a fixed number of hours to notify by, and that disruption threshold is what engages the duty rather than a period to notify within.

72 hours30 days

Artificial Intelligence Risk Management and Security Act of 2026

S. 5576, 119th Congressfrontier-model AI law, proposed

The sentence the clocks are read from

If you are a developer or provider of a frontier AI model, or an operator of critical infrastructure that uses an AI model to manage industrial control systems or other operational technologies, report any confirmed AI safety incident or AI security incident within 30 days of confirmation, and within 72 hours if the incident poses an imminent threat to national security, critical infrastructure or public safety.

72 hours

NCUA Cyber Incident Notification Requirements for Federally Insured Credit Unions

NCUA Cyber Incident Notification Requirements, 12 CFR 748.1(c)security law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

If your organization is a federally insured credit union, notify the NCUA-designated point of contact of a reportable cyber incident by email, telephone, or another method the NCUA prescribes, so that the NCUA receives the notification as soon as possible and no later than 72 hours after your organization reasonably believes it has experienced a reportable cyber incident.

Where the reportable cyber incident is a disruption of business operations or unauthorized access to sensitive data facilitated through, or caused by, a compromise of a credit union service organization, cloud service provider, or other third-party data hosting provider, or by a supply chain compromise, the NCUA must receive the notification within 72 hours of your organization being notified by the third party if that is sooner.

72 hours30 days

Regulation S-P: incident response program and customer breach notice

17 CFR 248.30(a)(3) to (a)(5)privacy law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

Send the notice as soon as practicable, but not later than 30 days, after becoming aware that unauthorized access to or use of customer information has occurred or is reasonably likely to have occurred, delaying it only for the period the United States Attorney General specifies where the Attorney General determines that notice poses a substantial risk to national security or public safety (17 CFR 248.30(a)(4)(iii)).

Maintain written policies and procedures reasonably designed to require oversight, including through due diligence and monitoring, of service providers, including that a service provider notify you as soon as possible, and no later than 72 hours, after becoming aware of a breach in security resulting in unauthorized access to a customer information system it maintains (17 CFR 248.30(a)(5)(i)).

72 hours

SEC Regulation S-P: service provider oversight and 72-hour breach notice to the covered institution

SEC Regulation S-P service provider oversight and notice, 17 CFR 248.30(a)(5)security law, in force

The sentence the clocks are read from

Make those policies and procedures reasonably designed to ensure that each service provider takes appropriate measures to protect against unauthorized access to or use of customer information, and to notify you as soon as possible, but no later than 72 hours after becoming aware that a breach in security has occurred resulting in unauthorized access to a customer information system the service provider maintains.

4 business days

SEC Cybersecurity Risk Management, Governance, and Incident Disclosure (Regulation S-K Item 106; Form 8-K Item 1.05)

17 CFR 229.106; 17 CFR 249.308 (Form 8-K Item 1.05)security law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

If your organization is an Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting company, determine, without unreasonable delay after you discover a cybersecurity incident, whether the incident is material, and if it is, file a Form 8-K under Item 1.05 within four business days after you make that determination.

If the information called for in Item 1.05 is not determined or is unavailable when you file, state that in the filing and file an amendment to the Form 8-K within four business days after you determine it or it becomes available.

7 business days30 days

FCC CPNI breach notification rule

47 CFR 64.2011privacy law, in force

The sentences the clocks are read from

After you reasonably determine that a breach of your customers' CPNI has occurred, electronically notify the United States Secret Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation through the central reporting facility as soon as practicable, and in no event later than seven business days (47 CFR 64.2011(b)).

Do not notify customers or disclose the breach where the relevant investigating agency directs you in writing not to, for an initial period of up to 30 days that the agency may extend (47 CFR 64.2011(b)(3)).

60 days

FTC Health Breach Notification Rule

16 CFR Part 318privacy law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

If you are a vendor of personal health records (an entity that offers or maintains an electronic record of health information that can draw information from multiple sources and is managed, shared and controlled by or primarily for the individual) or a PHR related entity, notify each affected individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States, in plain language and without unreasonable delay, no later than 60 calendar days after you discover a breach of security of unsecured PHR identifiable health information.

Notify prominent media outlets serving a State or jurisdiction, without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after you discover the breach, when the unsecured PHR identifiable health information of 500 or more of its residents is, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired during the breach.

If you are a third party service provider, notify the official designated in a written contract by the vendor of personal health records or PHR related entity you serve (or else a senior official of that vendor or entity), without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after you discover the breach; identify each customer of that vendor or entity whose unsecured PHR identifiable health information has been, or is reasonably believed to have been, acquired during the breach; and obtain acknowledgment that the notice was received.

60 days

HIPAA Breach Notification Rule

45 CFR Part 164, Subpart D (Sections 164.400-164.414)privacy law, in force since

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Notify affected individuals without unreasonable delay and no later than 60 days after discovering a breach of unsecured protected health information.

For a breach of unsecured protected health information involving more than 500 residents of a State or jurisdiction, notify prominent media outlets serving that State or jurisdiction without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after discovery of the breach.

If you are a business associate, notify the covered entity of a breach of unsecured protected health information without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after discovery of the breach.

promptly

CFTC system safeguards: prompt notice to Commission staff of cyber security incidents and targeted threats

CFTC system safeguards notices, 17 CFR 39.18(g), 38.1051(e) and 37.1401(e)security law, in force since

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If your organization is a derivatives clearing organization, notify staff of the Division of Clearing and Risk promptly of any hardware or software malfunction, security incident, or targeted threat that materially impairs, or creates a significant likelihood of material impairment of, automated system operation, reliability, security, or capacity, and of any activation of your business continuity and disaster recovery plan.

If your organization is a designated contract market, notify Commission staff promptly of all cyber security incidents or targeted threats that actually or potentially jeopardize automated system operation, reliability, security, or capacity, as well as electronic trading halts and significant systems malfunctions and activations of your business continuity-disaster recovery plan.

If your organization is a swap execution facility, notify Commission staff promptly of all cyber security incidents or targeted threats that actually or potentially jeopardize automated system operation, reliability, security, or capacity, as well as electronic trading halts and material system malfunctions and activations of your business continuity-disaster recovery plan.

immediately

Coast Guard Cybersecurity in the Marine Transportation System: reportable cyber incidents

Coast Guard reportable cyber incident reporting, 33 CFR 101.620(b)(7) and 101.615security law, in force since

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Evidence of sabotage, subversive activity, or an actual or threatened cyber incident involving or endangering any vessel, harbor, port, or waterfront facility must be reported immediately to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (for any cyber incident), and the Captain of the Port, or to their respective representatives.

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