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Maine

All 11 named instruments researched to a stage, across four of the ten areas of law we track: 11 in force. As of .

When each starts10 of 11 carry a date, 1 does not. Earlier is before 2014.
Before 2014: 2 instruments (2 in force) earlier 2014: 0 instruments 2015: 0 instruments ’15 2016: 0 instruments 2017: 0 instruments 2018: 0 instruments 2019: 0 instruments 2020: 1 instrument (1 in force) ’20 2021: 0 instruments 2022: 2 instruments (2 in force) 2023: 0 instruments 2024: 0 instruments 2025: 2 instruments (2 in force) 2026: 3 instruments (3 in force) ’26 today

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  1. AI law 5
  2. Privacy law 2
  3. Scraping law 2
  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
  10. Reuse law

AI law5 instruments, 5 in force

Research summary (246 words)

Maine has enacted five AI-specific duties beyond the federal baseline. 10 M.R.S. § 1500-DD requires clear disclosure whenever a person uses an AI chatbot in trade or commerce in a way that could mislead a consumer into believing they are talking to a human, enforced as an unfair trade practice. 17-A M.R.S. § 511-A was amended in 2025 to bring an AI-generated or AI-manipulated nude or sexual deepfake image within Maine's existing non-consensual-intimate-image crime, also confirmed live.

Sections 281 to 284 of Title 17-A were amended by an emergency act approved (LD 524, Public Law chapter 719) so that child sexual abuse material includes a computer-generated image, or an image created or modified to appear to depict a minor, and so that modifying an image of an identifiable child, or using generative AI or machine learning to create obscene child sexual abuse material, is a Class B crime.

Two 2026 enactments took effect on , the general effective date for non-emergency laws of the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature: an amendment to the election code, 21-A M.R.S. § 1014(5-C), requiring a disclosure statement on political ads containing AI-manipulated audio, video, or images of a candidate, and 10 M.R.S. § 1500-EE, prohibiting anyone from offering therapy or psychotherapy services to the public, including through AI, unless provided by a Maine-licensed professional, with parallel provisions across several Title 32 professional-licensing chapters governing a licensee's own permitted and prohibited uses of AI.

AI prohibited practices

Technology-facilitated sexual abuse of minors, AI-generated and modified child sexual abuse material (LD 524)

17-A M.R.S. sections 281 to 284 (P.L. 2025, c. 719)chaptered Public Law text of LD 524 (P.L. 2025, c. 719), Maine Legislature

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Maine amended its sexual exploitation of minors, dissemination, and possession offenses so that child sexual abuse material includes any image, including a computer-generated image, that depicts or has been created or modified so that it appears to depict a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, whether or not the depiction is of an identifiable child. Intentionally or knowingly modifying or altering an image of an identifiable child to create child sexual abuse material is a Class B crime.

Intentionally or knowingly manufacturing or creating obscene child sexual abuse material, including by using generative AI or machine learning, when the person knows or has reason to know what it is, is also a Class B crime. Intentionally or knowingly disseminating, or possessing with intent to disseminate, obscene child sexual abuse material, including an image created using generative AI or machine learning, is a Class C crime. LD 524 was enacted as Public Law chapter 719. The Governor approved it on . It is an emergency act that takes effect when approved.

What it requires

Unauthorized dissemination of certain private images (AI-generated image amendment)

17-A M.R.S. § 511-Aofficial text, Maine Revised Statutes (legislature.maine.gov)

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A person is guilty of unauthorized dissemination of certain private images, a Class D crime, if, with intent to harass, torment, or threaten, the person intentionally or knowingly disseminates, displays, or publishes an image of another person in a state of nudity or engaged in a sexual act or sexual contact, or an image that has been created or modified so that it appears to show the depicted person in such a state, knowing the depicted person is identifiable and has not consented.

A 2025 amendment (P.L. 2025, ch. 400) added the created-or-modified-image language and a matching definition of image that reaches a computer data file or other electronically or mechanically reproduced visual image, bringing an AI-generated or AI-manipulated sexual deepfake within the existing non-consensual-intimate-image crime rather than creating a separate offense.

The same chapter also touched Maine's protection-from-abuse and protection-from-harassment statutes (19-A M.R.S. § 4102; 5 M.R.S. § 4651), per the enacting bill's own list of affected sections; those companion provisions are not separately researched here. The Legislature's own bill-status page records enactment and the Governor's signature on , not June 25 as a secondary tracker reports.

What it requires

AI sector rules

Use of artificial intelligence in therapy or psychotherapy services

10 M.R.S. § 1500-EEchaptered Public Law text (P.L. 2025, ch. 687), Maine Legislature (LD 2082)

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A person may not provide, advertise, or otherwise offer therapy or psychotherapy services to the public, including through Internet-based artificial intelligence, unless those services are provided by a professional licensed in Maine to practice psychotherapy or behavioral health therapy; a violation is a violation of the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act.

The same act enacts parallel provisions across seven licensing-board chapters of Title 32 (including 32 M.R.S. §§ 2113, 2600-G, 3300-J, 3820-A, 6207-D, 7009, and 13870) that let a Maine-licensed therapy professional use AI for administrative support such as scheduling or billing and, with the client's written disclosure and consent, for supplementary support such as session notes, but forbid letting AI make an independent therapeutic decision, interact directly with a client in therapeutic communication, or generate a treatment recommendation without the licensee's review and approval; a violation of a board-chapter provision is enforced through board discipline under 10 M.R.S. § 8003(5) rather than through the Unfair Trade Practices Act.

Each provision excepts an AI-based intervention used solely within an institutional-review-board-approved research project. Enacted as LD 2082 (P.L. 2025, ch. 687) and signed by the Governor on . The Act took effect on , the date the Maine Legislature gives for non-emergency legislation enacted in the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature.

What it requires

AI transparency

Maine Chatbot Disclosure Act

10 M.R.S. § 1500-DDofficial text, Maine Revised Statutes (legislature.maine.gov)

In force since . Binds private bodies.

What this law does

A person may not use an AI chatbot, or any other computer technology that simulates human conversation, to engage in trade and commerce with a consumer in a way that may mislead or deceive a reasonable consumer into believing they are engaging with a human being, unless the consumer is notified in a clear and conspicuous manner that they are not. A violation is a violation of the Maine Unfair Trade Practices Act.

The provision was enacted as LD 1727 (P.L. 2025, ch. 294), originally allocated to 10 M.R.S. § 1500-Y and since reallocated by the Revisor of Statutes to its current citation, § 1500-DD. The Legislature's own bill-status page records enactment and the Governor's signature on .

What it requires

Synthetic media disclosure in campaign advertising

21-A M.R.S. § 1014, sub-§ 5-Cchaptered Public Law text (P.L. 2025, ch. 593), Maine Legislature (LD 517)

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Whenever a political public communication that already requires a disclosure under Maine campaign-finance law contains synthetic media of a candidate, the communication must also carry the words THIS COMMUNICATION CONTAINS AUDIO, VIDEO AND/OR IMAGES THAT HAVE BEEN MANIPULATED OR ALTERED.

Synthetic media is defined as an image, audio recording, or video recording of a candidate that, in a manner likely to deceive a reasonable person, depicts the candidate saying or doing something the candidate did not say or do, or that has been manipulated to give a materially different impression of the candidate's appearance, action, or speech than the unaltered original; satire, parody, and technical clarity edits that do not change the impression given are excluded.

A violation of this subsection carries a civil penalty of up to 500% of the expenditure on the offending communication, compared with 100% for other disclosure violations under the same section, and a broadcaster or newspaper is liable only if it publishes or broadcasts with actual knowledge that the communication contains synthetic media. Enacted as LD 517 (P.L. 2025, ch. 593) and signed by the Governor on .

The Act took effect on , the general effective date the Laws of Maine gives for nonemergency laws of the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature.

What it requires

Privacy law2 instruments, 2 in force

Research summary (99 words)

Maine has no comprehensive consumer-data-privacy statute as of the date shown. Maine instead layers two sectoral statutes: an unusually strict opt-in privacy regime for broadband internet access providers (35-A M.R.S. sec. 9301) that never mentions biometric data at all, and a breach-notification statute (10 M.R.S. secs. 1347-1349) enforced by the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation or the Attorney General.

No dedicated biometric-privacy provision of any kind reaches the private sector in Maine; the state's only enacted biometric statute, 25 M.R.S. sec. 6001, restricts government use of facial recognition only and is out of scope for this private-sector-duty-bearer document.

Breach notification

Notice of Risk to Personal Data

10 M.R.S. secs. 1347-1349official Maine statute text, 10 M.R.S. sections 1347 to 1349, Maine Legislature website

In force. Binds private bodies.

What this law does

A person must notify affected Maine residents of a breach of security as expediently as possible and without unreasonable delay, no more than 30 days after becoming aware of the breach and identifying its scope absent a law-enforcement delay, and must notify the appropriate state regulator within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation, or the Attorney General if unregulated by that department.

A violation is a civil violation subject to a fine of not more than $500 per violation, up to a maximum of $2,500 for each day, to equitable relief, or to an order enjoining further violations. The appropriate state regulators within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation enforce the chapter against persons they license or regulate, and the Attorney General enforces it against all other persons.

The cumulative effect clause, subsection 3 of section 1349, provides that the rights and remedies available under the section are cumulative and do not affect or prevent rights and remedies available under federal or state law. The section's own history note dates enactment to PL 2005, c. 379, sec. 1, amended by PL 2005, c. 583, PL 2009, c. 161, and PL 2019, c. 512. The provisions this entry describes came into force on different days.

What it requires

Data subject rights

Broadband internet access service, customer personal information privacy

35-A M.R.S. sec. 9301official Maine statute text, 35-A M.R.S. section 9301, Maine Legislature website

In force since . Binds private bodies.

What this law does

A provider of broadband internet access service may not use, disclose, sell, or permit access to a customer's customer personal information except with the customer's express, affirmative, opt-in consent, revocable at any time, and may not refuse service or charge a penalty or offer a discount based on the customer's consent decision.

"Customer personal information" is defined broadly (name, billing information, Social Security number, demographic data, browsing history, application usage history, precise geolocation, financial and health information, children's information, device identifiers, communications content, and origin and destination IP addresses) but never mentions biometric data.

The section's own history note dates enactment to PL 2019, c. 216, sec. 1, and the Act takes effect under its section 2; the section carries no amendment since. No enforcement or penalty provision appears within the section itself as read.

What it requires

Scraping law2 instruments, 2 in force

Research summary (138 words)

Maine diverges from the federal baseline through its own criminal computer-trespass statute: intentionally accessing any computer resource while knowing the access is unauthorized is a stand-alone Class D crime under 17-A M.R.S. § 432, with no requirement of malicious intent, deception, or resulting harm, so it reads as a bare authorization test.

Intentionally making an unauthorized copy of a computer program, software, or information, or intentionally or knowingly damaging a computer resource or introducing a virus, escalates the offense to a Class C crime under 17-A M.R.S. § 433. No Maine court decision applying either section to an automated web-scraping fact pattern has been located.

Terms-of-service enforceability, the copyright and text-and-data-mining exception, database rights, and robots.txt's legal weight are federal-law questions Maine adds nothing to; no Maine-specific personal-data-scraping statute or unfair-competition or misappropriation case addressing scraping was located.

Computer misuse

Aggravated criminal invasion of computer privacy

17-A M.R.S. § 433official text, Maine Revised Statutes (legislature.maine.gov)

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A person commits aggravated criminal invasion of computer privacy, a Class C crime, by intentionally making an unauthorized copy of a computer program, software, or information, knowing the person is not authorized to do so; by intentionally or knowingly damaging a computer resource with no reasonable ground to believe the person has the right to do so; or by intentionally or knowingly introducing or allowing the introduction of a computer virus into a computer resource.

Unauthorized copying under the first branch does not require proof of resulting damage, so it reaches bulk automated copying of data from a computer resource without authorization, not only intrusions that damage or infect a system.

What it requires

Criminal invasion of computer privacy

17-A M.R.S. § 432official text, Maine Revised Statutes (legislature.maine.gov)

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A person is guilty of criminal invasion of computer privacy, a Class D crime, if the person intentionally accesses any computer resource knowing that the person is not authorized to do so. The statute states a bare authorization test with no separate requirement of malicious intent, deception, or resulting damage, so an intentional, knowing, unauthorized access alone completes the offense; no exception for a publicly accessible page is stated in the text.

What it requires

Cybersecurity law2 instruments, 2 in force

Research summary (641 words)

Maine has no general private-sector reasonable-security or written-information-security-program statute, no product-security or connected-device market-entry requirement, and no vulnerability or incident-reporting duty that reaches a business by size or activity rather than by insurance license.

Title 10, chapter 210-B (10 M.R.S. secs. 1346 to 1350-B, the Notice of Risk to Personal Data Act), read here in full, is pure breach notification: a short title (sec. 1346), definitions (sec. 1347), a prohibition on an unauthorized person's release or use of information obtained through a breach (sec. 1347-A), the notification duty itself, running to residents, to the person on whose behalf data is held, to consumer reporting agencies, and to state regulators (sec. 1348), enforcement and civil penalties of up to $500 per violation and up to $2,500 per day (sec. 1349), rulemaking and public education (sec. 1350-A), and mandatory police-report access for an identity-theft victim (sec. 1350-B).

No section of the chapter creates a safeguards duty independent of the notification trigger, and the chapter is already this jurisdiction's privacy-topic row rather than repeated here.

35-A M.R.S. sec. 9301, Maine's opt-in consent statute for broadband internet access service customer personal information, carries its own security clause at subsection 5, requiring a provider to take reasonable measures, weighed against the nature and scope of its activities, the sensitivity of the data, its size, and technical feasibility, to protect that data from unauthorized use, disclosure or access.

That clause sits inside the same section already filed under privacy as Maine's consent-and-notice regime for broadband customers, and stays there as that regime's own security-of-processing provision rather than as a standalone security statute.

Maine does have one enacted sector security regime: the Maine Insurance Data Security Act, 24-A M.R.S. secs. 2261 to 2272 (PL 2021, c. 24, effective , most recently amended by PL 2025, c. 348), which requires a person licensed, authorized or required to be licensed under Maine's insurance laws to develop, implement and maintain a comprehensive written information security program based on a documented risk assessment (sec. 2264), to investigate a cybersecurity event and preserve records of it for five years (sec. 2265), and to notify the superintendent within three business days of determining that a qualifying cybersecurity event has occurred, with the licensee's ordinary breach-notice duty to consumers running through Title 10, chapter 210-B rather than being displaced by it (sec. 2266).

The superintendent may investigate and enforce under sec. 2267, submitted material is held confidential under sec. 2268, a licensee with fewer than 10 employees, or one already compliant with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)'s security rule or a depository institution's Gramm-Leach-Bliley program, is exempt from the program duty (sec. 2269), and penalties run through the general civil-penalty schedule at 24-A M.R.S. sec. 12-A, $500 to $5,000 per violation for an individual and $2,000 to $15,000 for a corporation or other entity by Superior Court action, or a smaller penalty the superintendent may impose directly after an adjudicatory hearing, with no private right of action (sec. 2262).

Its bound party is the insurance licensee, and its program and notice duties are filed as rows of their own, flagged for an insurer.

No standalone connected-device or Internet-of-Things security statute, comparable to California's or Oregon's, was located in Maine's enacted statutes; that reading rests on the sections read for this visit together with the six other law-topic visits already made to this jurisdiction (ai, scraping, privacy, aggregation, compute, age), none of which surfaced one, and not on a further dedicated search of Title 10's or Title 35-A's full contents, since this session's search tool was unavailable.

Maine's Insurance Data Security Act requires each licensee to develop, implement and maintain a comprehensive, written information security program. A Maine licensee must notify the superintendent of a cybersecurity event within 3 business days of a determination that one has occurred, when Maine is its state of domicile or home state.

Sector security regimes

Maine Insurance Data Security Act, licensee information security program

Maine Insurance Data Security Act information security program, 24-A M.R.S. § 2264Official codified text of 24-A M.R.S. chapter 24-B

In force since . Binds private bodies.

What this law does

A licensee must develop, implement and maintain a comprehensive, written information security program based on the licensee's risk assessment and containing administrative, technical and physical safeguards for the protection of nonpublic information and the licensee's information systems.

A licensee is a person licensed, authorized to operate or registered or required to be licensed, authorized or registered pursuant to the insurance laws of Maine, other than a purchasing group or a risk retention group chartered and licensed in another state or a licensee acting as an assuming insurer domiciled in another state or jurisdiction.

A licensee must establish a written incident response plan designed to promptly respond to and recover from any cybersecurity event that compromises the confidentiality, integrity or availability of nonpublic information in its possession, its information systems or the continuing functionality of any aspect of its business or operations.

An insurance carrier domiciled in Maine must submit to the superintendent by April 15 each year a written statement certifying that it is in compliance with the requirements of section 2264. A licensee that learns that a cybersecurity event has or may have occurred must conduct a prompt investigation, or have a designated outside vendor or service provider conduct it. A licensee must maintain records concerning a cybersecurity event for a period of at least 5 years from the date of the event.

A licensee with fewer than 10 employees, including any independent contractors working for the licensee in the business of insurance, is exempt from section 2264. A licensee that is subject to and in compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is considered to meet the requirements of the chapter, other than the requirements for notification to the superintendent, if it meets three conditions that section 2269 lists.

The superintendent may take any enforcement action permitted under section 12-A against any person that violates any provision of the chapter. The chapter takes effect , and a licensee must comply with section 2264 no later than that day, except that it must comply with subsection 6 of that section no later than .

What it requires

Vulnerability and incident reporting

Maine Insurance Data Security Act, notice of a cybersecurity event to the superintendent

Maine Insurance Data Security Act notification of a cybersecurity event, 24-A M.R.S. § 2266Official codified text of 24-A M.R.S. chapter 24-B

In force since . Binds private bodies.

What this law does

A licensee must notify the superintendent as promptly as possible but in no event later than 3 business days from a determination that a cybersecurity event has occurred if Maine is the licensee's state of domicile, in the case of an insurance carrier, or its home state, in the case of an insurance producer.

A licensee must also notify the superintendent within that period if it reasonably believes that the nonpublic information involved concerns 250 or more consumers residing in Maine and the event requires notice to a government body, self-regulatory organization or other supervisory body, or has a reasonable likelihood of materially harming a Maine consumer or any material part of the licensee's normal operation.

A licensee must provide in electronic form as directed by the superintendent as much as possible of the information that subsection 2 lists regarding a cybersecurity event. The licensee has a continuing obligation to update and supplement its initial and subsequent notifications to the superintendent concerning the cybersecurity event.

A licensee must comply with Title 10, chapter 210-B and, when required to notify the superintendent, must provide the superintendent a copy of the notice sent to consumers. An assuming insurer must notify its affected ceding insurers and the superintendent of its state of domicile within 3 business days of making the determination that a cybersecurity event has occurred.

An insurance carrier must notify the producers of record of all affected consumers who accessed its services through an independent insurance producer no later than the time consumers must be notified or as directed by the superintendent, except where it lacks the current producer of record information for a consumer. The chapter takes effect .

What it requires

Where nothing was found2 areas 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.

Age gating law

Maine has not enacted an adult content age verification law, a social media minor-access law, an app store accountability law, or a design code law as of this date. A 2025 bill requiring age verification for online obscene matter (LD 1873) died between the houses on . A bill restricting social media use by minors under 16 (LD 844) died when the majority ought not to pass report of the Judiciary Committee was accepted on . The 132nd Legislature adjourned in April 2026 without enacting any age-gating law.

As of .

Reuse law

Maine has no press-publisher neighbouring right, mandatory platform-to-publisher bargaining code, or codified hot-news misappropriation statute distinct from federal law. No Maine bill matching the shape of California's since-dead Journalism Preservation Act or a mandatory-bargaining code has been located. No Maine court decision addressing snippet reproduction, linking, framing, or a text-and-data-mining opt-out has been located.

Copyright over news content reproduced or aggregated in the state is governed by the federal Copyright Act and its fair-use doctrine, already addressed in the federal document for this topic. Maine's Unfair Trade Practices Act (Title 10) and criminal code (Title 17-A) contain no aggregation-specific provision.

As of .

Case law

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

Reporting clocks that run here18 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 Maine 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
3 business days
Breach notificationprivacy law
Safety-incident reportfrontier-model AI law
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 Maine

3 business days

Maine Insurance Data Security Act, notice of a cybersecurity event to the superintendent

Maine Insurance Data Security Act notification of a cybersecurity event, 24-A M.R.S. § 2266security law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

Notify the superintendent as promptly as possible and in no event later than 3 business days from a determination that a cybersecurity event has occurred, if Maine is your state of domicile as an insurance carrier or your home state as an insurance producer.

Also notify the superintendent within 3 business days of that determination if you reasonably believe the nonpublic information involved concerns 250 or more consumers residing in Maine and the event requires notice to a government body, self-regulatory organization or other supervisory body under state or federal law, or has a reasonable likelihood of materially harming a consumer residing in Maine or a material part of your normal operation.

If you are an assuming insurer, notify your affected ceding insurers and the superintendent of your state of domicile within 3 business days of determining that a cybersecurity event involving nonpublic information you use or hold has occurred, or of receiving notice from your third-party service provider that one has occurred.

7 business days30 days

Notice of Risk to Personal Data

10 M.R.S. secs. 1347-1349privacy law, in force

The sentences the clocks are read from

Notify affected Maine residents of a breach of security as expediently as possible and without unreasonable delay, no more than 30 days after becoming aware of the breach and identifying its scope, absent a law enforcement delay.

Where a law enforcement investigation delays notice, notify affected Maine residents no later than 7 business days after a law enforcement agency determines that notification will not compromise a criminal investigation (10 M.R.S. 1348(3)).

The law of the United States, which applies in Maine

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

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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.

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

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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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FCC CPNI breach notification rule

47 CFR 64.2011privacy law, in force

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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