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Puerto Rico

9 of 10 named instruments researched to a stage, across four of the ten areas of law we track: 9 in force. As of .

When each starts6 of 9 carry a date, 3 do 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: 0 instruments ’20 2021: 0 instruments 2022: 0 instruments 2023: 0 instruments 2024: 2 instruments (2 in force) 2025: 1 instrument (1 in force) 2026: 1 instrument (1 in force) ’26 today

in forcenot yet in forceblocked by a courtproposedno longer in force

  1. AI law 1
  2. Privacy law 3
  3. Scraping law
  4. Cybersecurity law 4
  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 1

AI law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (119 words)

Puerto Rico's only enacted AI-transparency instrument requires disclosure when a political advertisement or electoral communication is created or altered using artificial intelligence (Ley 105-2026, amending the Political Campaign Oversight Act and the Electoral Code); it does not reach a commercial or consumer-facing product outside the electoral context.

No general AI-risk-obligations, AI-training-data, AI-prohibited-practices, AI-governance, or AI-sector-rules instrument binding a private actor is found in Puerto Rico's enacted law.

A bill that would create a government-wide AI Officer and Advisory Council and bind Puerto Rico executive agencies (P. del S. 68, 2025-2028 session) remained unenacted as of the most recent record available and imposes no obligation on any actor unless and until enacted; its current legislative status is not confirmed here.

AI transparency

AI disclosure in political advertising and electoral communications

Ley Núm. 105 de 10 de junio de 2026 (P. del S. 101) enmendando los Artículos 7.007 y 7.009 de la Ley 222-2011 (Ley para la Fiscalización de las Campañas Políticas) y el Artículo 12.7 de la Ley 58-2020 (Código Electoral de Puerto Rico de 2020)official statute text, LexJuris de Puerto Rico

In force since . Binds private bodies.

What this law does

Ley 105-2026 amends Puerto Rico's Political Campaign Oversight Act (Ley 222-2011) and Electoral Code (Ley 58-2020) to define "Inteligencia Artificial", including generative AI capable of producing text, image, audio, or video, and to require that any political advertisement or electoral communication created or modified, in whole or in part, using AI carry a clear, visible disclosure that it was produced or altered with AI; a radio or other audiovisual communication must also make the disclosure as a spoken statement.

It further makes it a misdemeanor, on a second or later occasion, for any person to maliciously submit AI-generated or AI-altered false data, documents, or images to an electronic system operated by the Comisión Estatal de Elecciones without a clear, legible notice. Approved on and effective immediately on approval, with no separate vacatio legis period.

What it requires

Privacy law3 instruments, 3 in force

Research summary (108 words)

Puerto Rico has no comprehensive private-sector data-protection statute.

Three instruments cover discrete duties: a 2005 breach-notification act binding both government and private holders of a "banco de información" (Ley 111-2005), a 2024 statute restricting social-media platforms' handling of minors' personal data and banning automated profiling of known minors absent narrow exceptions (Ley 185-2024), and a cluster of Penal Code articles under the "delitos contra el derecho a la intimidad" heading criminalizing unauthorized appropriation, use, or disclosure of another person's or company's reserved personal data (Ley 146-2012, Arts. 172-175).

No dedicated biometric-privacy statute, cross-border-transfer restriction, or general data-subject-rights regime is found in Puerto Rico's session laws or Penal Code.

Breach notification

Ley de Información al Ciudadano sobre la Seguridad de Bancos de Información (data breach notification)

Ley Núm. 111 de 7 de septiembre de 2005, según enmendada; 10 L.P.R.A. §§ 4051-4055official codified text (10 L.P.R.A. §§ 4051-4055), Puerto Rico Office of Management and Budget (OGP) Virtual Library

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Every entity, government or private, that owns or has custody of an information bank containing Puerto Rico residents' personal information must notify affected citizens of a security breach as expeditiously as possible, and must report the breach to the Department of Consumer Affairs within a non-extendable ten days, after which the Department publicly announces the breach within twenty-four hours.

A breach at a government agency or public corporation is instead routed to a specialized Ombudsman within the Office of the Procurador del Ciudadano. Direct written or authenticated electronic notice is required unless the cost would exceed $100,000 or the affected population 100,000 people, in which case substitute notice (prominent posting plus media notice) is permitted.

The Secretary of Consumer Affairs may impose a civil fine of $500 to $5,000 per violation; Article 10 states that these fines do not affect consumers' rights to bring damages actions before a competent court, and the Act grants no cause of action of its own. Article 11 states the Act takes effect one hundred and twenty days after its approval, other than Article 6, which took effect immediately. The provisions this entry describes came into force on different days.

What it requires

Enforcement supervision

Código Penal de Puerto Rico, delitos contra el derecho a la intimidad (unauthorized use and disclosure of personal data records)

Ley Núm. 146 de 30 de julio de 2012, según enmendada (Código Penal de Puerto Rico), Arts. 172-175; 33 L.P.R.A. §§ 5238-5241Código Penal de Puerto Rico (Ley 146-2012), consolidated text, Puerto Rico Office of Management and Budget (OGP) Virtual Library

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Under the Penal Code's section on crimes against the right to privacy, Article 172 makes it a felony, punishable by three years' imprisonment, to appropriate, use, modify, or alter without authorization another person's or family's reserved personal data held in a computerized or other file or registry; a convicted legal person is instead fined up to $10,000.

Article 173 applies the same penalty to disseminating, publishing, revealing, or transferring such data to a third party, or to distributing or accessing data known to have been obtained through such a violation. Article 174 extends Articles 171 through 173 to protect a legal person's (a company's) reserved data on the same terms.

Article 175 raises the penalty to eight years' imprisonment, and a convicted legal person's fine to $30,000, where the violation is committed for profit by the person responsible for the records, or by a public official or employee acting in the course of their duties.

What it requires

Sensitive categories

Ley para la Protección de la Privacidad Cibernética de los Niños y Jóvenes (children's online privacy)

Ley Núm. 185 de 27 de agosto de 2024official codified text, Puerto Rico Office of Management and Budget (OGP) Virtual Library

In force since . Binds private bodies.

What this law does

Every social-media website or app that permits registration of a user eighteen or younger and resident in Puerto Rico must not publish or disclose that user's personal information (beyond name and city) without the parent's or guardian's consent, must not store, sell, share, or retain a known minor's personal information beyond what is reasonably necessary to the service, and must not profile a known minor absent a compelling, minor-protective purpose.

Precise geolocation of a known minor may not be stored, sold, or shared beyond what the service reasonably requires. The platform must give every minor user a simple privacy-settings process at registration and must honor an account-deletion or data-removal request within forty-five days. The law is designed not to conflict with the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act for users under thirteen.

The Negociado de Telecomunicaciones de Puerto Rico (NET) has exclusive enforcement authority and may impose a civil penalty of up to $25,000 per violation.

What it requires

Cybersecurity law4 instruments, 4 in force

Research summary (775 words)

Puerto Rico has no general private-sector security-baseline statute, no connected-device or product-security statute, and no private-sector vulnerability or incident-reporting duty of general application.

Ley 111-2005 (Ley de Información al Ciudadano sobre la Seguridad de Bancos de Información, 10 L.P.R.A. §§ 4051-4055), Puerto Rico's breach-notification act, was read in full for this visit specifically to check for a separate, freestanding security-measures article of the kind several US states pair with their own breach-notification duty.

It has none: Article 3 (10 L.P.R.A. § 4052) is a duty to notify affected residents of a security violation after it happens, not a duty to maintain safeguards beforehand, and Article 5 (10 L.P.R.A. § 4054) is a savings clause exempting an entity with pre-existing, equivalent-or-better institutional security policies from the notification duty itself, not an independent safeguards obligation of its own.

Ley 111-2005 stays entirely on this jurisdiction's privacy row, already filed there, with nothing left over for this topic.

The only enacted Puerto Rico statute that reaches a private company's security posture as such is the Ley de Ciberseguridad del Gobierno de Puerto Rico (Ley Núm. 40 de 18 de enero de 2024, según enmendada por la Ley Núm. 140 de 22 de julio de 2026; 3 L.P.R.A. §§ 10121-10135), and it is a sector regime rather than one of general application: Article 2 binds the Executive Branch, its agencies, public corporations and municipalities, and separately binds any natural or legal person who does business with or holds a contract with the Government, but only as to the public functions or services performed and the data generated by them.

The Commissioner of Insurance's Rule 108, a regulation rather than a statute, separately sets cybersecurity program and 72-hour notice duties for insurance licensees, filed as rows of its own.

Article 7 requires every Agency and every 'Proveedor de servicios contratados' (contracted service provider) to meet, and to make any person doing business or contracting with them meet, nineteen listed minimum cybersecurity standards, among them National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-based encryption of data in transit and at rest, PCI-DSS compliance for payment processing, mandatory multi-factor authentication after data classification, and required security certifications for a provider whose services touch cybersecurity or sensitive citizen data.

Article 7(10) requires an information-and-communications-technology contracted service provider to notify PRITS (the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service) and the contracting Agency within 48 hours of discovering a security incident or potential incident, and Article 7(11) requires a cybersecurity-services provider to file monthly status reports with PRITS.

Article 10 arms this with real exposure for a private contractor: monetary sanctions up to the contracted amount plus contractual and other damages for a Proveedor de servicios contratados found responsible for a violation, and a five-year bar from any Puerto Rico government contract for that provider or an entity sharing a significant number of the same people, on top of per-incident daily fines and per-violation fines the statute assesses against a non-complying Agency.

It binds a private business through its contract with the Puerto Rico Government.

No Puerto Rico statute setting security requirements a connected device or general software product must meet to be placed on the market, comparable to California's or Oregon's connected-device statutes or the Cyber Resilience Act, is confirmed in the primary sources read for this visit, nor did a targeted pass over the OGP Virtual Library's full reference-law index turn up an entry for one; the closest adjacent entries in that index are the organic act creating the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions (Ley 4 de 1985, OCIF) and its supervisory jurisdiction over financial institutions, which names no cybersecurity regulation of its own in the index and is not researched further here.

The Penal Code's Article 172 cluster (Ley 146-2012, unauthorized appropriation, use, or disclosure of another's reserved personal data) stays filed on the privacy row, and its computer-sabotage and computer-fraud articles stay unfiled on the scraping row, exactly as this jurisdiction's existing privacy and scraping documents already record; neither attaches to a product's or a business's security posture as such, so neither is restated or refiled here.

The Government Cybersecurity Act, Ley 40-2024, requires every Agency to develop, document and implement a cybersecurity program in collaboration with PRITS. Ley 40-2024 requires a contracted service provider of information and communications technology to notify PRITS and the contracting Agency within 48 hours of discovering a security incident.

Rule 108 of the Commissioner of Insurance requires each insurance licensee to develop, implement, maintain and document a comprehensive written information security program. Rule 108 requires an insurance licensee to notify the Commissioner of a cybersecurity incident within 72 hours after determining that it occurred, when the Rule's criteria are met.

Sector security regimes

Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Industry, licensee cybersecurity program, Rule 108 of the Insurance Code Regulations

Rule No. 108, Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Industry, Sections 6 to 8, 11 and 13English text of Rule No. 108 published by the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance of Puerto Rico

In force. Binds private bodies.

What this law does

Rule 108 applies to any person who holds a license or authorization to transact insurance business issued by the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance and who uses an Information System. Each licensee must develop, implement, maintain and document a comprehensive written information security program, based on its risk assessment, that contains administrative, technical and physical safeguards for nonpublic information and the licensee's information system.

A licensee with fifteen or fewer employees is exempt from the program section. A licensee that maintains a program under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule is considered to meet the program section if it submits a written certification of compliance. A licensee that is an affiliate or subsidiary of a financial institution and maintains a program under section 501 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act is considered to meet the program section if it submits a written certification of compliance.

No later than June 30 of each year, every licensee domiciled in Puerto Rico must submit to the Commissioner a written statement certifying compliance with the program section. A licensee that violates the Rule may be penalized up to $10,000 per violation. The Rule may not be construed to create a cause of action for violating its provisions. Licensees have a period of six months to implement the Rule.

What it requires

Government Cybersecurity Act, agency cybersecurity programs and minimum standards for agencies and contracted service providers

Ley de Ciberseguridad del Gobierno de Puerto Rico, Arts. 2, 5 and 7 (Ley Núm. 40 de 18 de enero de 2024)Compilation of the Ley de Ciberseguridad del Gobierno de Puerto Rico published in the Virtual Library of the Oficina de Gerencia y…

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

The Act applies to the Executive Branch, including every department, board, agency, public corporation and municipality, and to any natural or legal person that does business or holds contracts with the Government, but a private person performing public functions and services is covered only as to those functions and services.

Every Agency, in collaboration with PRITS, must develop, document and implement a cybersecurity program that covers all of its information assets, includes an annual cybersecurity risk assessment and includes an internal and external vulnerability evaluation. Every Agency and every contracted service provider must meet, and make every person that does business or contracts with them meet, the minimum cybersecurity standards that Article 7 lists.

Confidential information must be encrypted in transit and at rest. The Act states as public policy a prohibition on any covered agency or person paying a ransom in response to ransomware, with case-by-case exceptions for critical infrastructure or an imminent risk to life. The Government has six months to finish the steps needed to comply. The compilation of the Act incorporates the amendments made by Ley 140-2026.

What it requires

Vulnerability and incident reporting

Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Industry, investigation of a cybersecurity incident and notice to the Commissioner within 72 hours

Rule No. 108 of the Insurance Code Regulations, Sections 9 and 10, Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance IndustryEnglish text of Rule No. 108 published by the Office of the Commissioner of Insurance of Puerto Rico

In force. Binds private bodies.

What this law does

A licensee that learns that a cybersecurity incident has occurred or may have occurred must conduct an investigation as soon as possible and prepare a written report. A licensee must notify the Commissioner of a cybersecurity incident as promptly as possible, within 72 hours after it has been determined that the incident occurred, when any of the Rule's criteria are met.

One criterion is that the licensee reasonably believes the nonpublic information involved impacts 250 or more consumers residing in Puerto Rico and that the incident either requires notice to a government agency or regulator under state or federal law or has a reasonable probability of causing material harm. A licensee acting as a reinsurer must notify the affected ceding insurers and the Commissioner of its state of domicile within 72 hours of determining that an incident has occurred.

A licensee must keep records of all cybersecurity incidents for at least five years from the date of the incident. A licensee that violates the Rule may be penalized up to $10,000 per violation.

What it requires

Government Cybersecurity Act, incident reporting to the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service

Ley Núm. 40 de 18 de enero de 2024 (Ley de Ciberseguridad del Gobierno de Puerto Rico), Arts. 7(10), 7(11) and 8Compilation of the Ley de Ciberseguridad del Gobierno de Puerto Rico published in the Virtual Library of the Oficina de Gerencia y…

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

A contracted service provider of information and communications technology must share information with, and notify, PRITS and the contracting Agency within 48 hours of discovering a cybersecurity incident or a potential incident that could put Government data, software products, firmware or services at risk.

Under any cybersecurity services contract, the external provider must file monthly reports with PRITS on the cybersecurity status of the information systems and sensitive assets it manages for the Agency. Every Agency must report any suspected security incident to the Office for the Evaluation of Cyber Incidents so that the Office, in coordination with the Agency, carries out incident management.

The Office for the Evaluation of Cyber Incidents must file a quarterly report with the House of Representatives and the Senate. A contracted service provider identified as responsible for the conduct that Article 10 describes is subject to monetary sanctions up to the contracted amount. A contracted service provider identified as responsible, and an entity with a significant number of the same people, may not be contracted by an Agency or a Government contractor for five years.

What it requires

Reuse law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (179 words)

Puerto Rico has no press-publisher neighbouring right, no mandatory platform-to-publisher bargaining code, and no recognized hot-news misappropriation doctrine or statute addressing hyperlinking or framing specifically; each of those is governed here, as elsewhere in the United States, by the federal Copyright Act's fair-use doctrine already covered in the national document.

The one Puerto Rico-specific instrument bearing on aggregation is the Ley de Derechos Morales de Autor de Puerto Rico (Ley 55-2012), which grants an author a non-transferable right of attribution and a waivable right of integrity in a literary or artistic work, but exempts a legitimate use made for critical, parody, commentary, news, educational, or investigative purposes from a moral-rights claim, judged under a three-factor totality-of-the-circumstances test resembling the federal fair-use factors (purpose of the use, nature of the work, and the amount and substantiality of the portion used relative to the whole).

This exception shields a news aggregator's excerpting of Puerto Rico authors' work done for a qualifying purpose from an attribution or integrity claim under this statute, though it creates no separate right to the excerpt itself.

Snippet reproduction

Ley de Derechos Morales de Autor de Puerto Rico, news and criticism exception

Ley Núm. 55 de 9 de marzo de 2012Ley Núm. 55 de 9 de marzo de 2012, compilation published by the Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto de Puerto Rico (revised )

In force since . Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Ley 55-2012 recognizes an author's moral rights of attribution (paternity) and integrity in a literary or artistic work, non-transferable and, for the integrity right, waivable only by signed writing.

Article 10 exempts a legitimate use made for purposes of criticism, parody, commentary, news, education, or investigation from a moral-rights claim, to be judged under the totality of the circumstances including the purpose of the use, the nature of the work, and the size and substance of the portion used relative to the work as a whole.

Article 11 arms the author or successor with injunctive relief, actual damages, and, for a registered work whose violation targets a commercial or economic benefit, elective statutory damages of $750 to $20,000 per violation per registered work, at the court's discretion, plus costs and fees if the author prevails. The statute repealed the 1988 moral-rights act it replaced and took effect on approval.

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.

Scraping law

Puerto Rico's Penal Code (Ley 146-2012, as amended) has no general computer-trespass or unauthorized-access statute comparable to a state computer-crime act: its table of contents lists no chapter or section addressing access to a computer system as such.

The closest provisions are Article 172 (33 L.P.R.A. § 5238), which criminalizes unauthorized appropriation, use, modification, or alteration of another's reserved personal or family data in a file or registry, filed under the Code's "delitos contra el derecho a la intimidad" (crimes against the right to privacy) heading; Article 203 (33 L.P.R.A. § 5273), which criminalizes computer-mediated fraud (obtaining a non-consented transfer of property or a right through computer manipulation); and Article 240 (33 L.P.R.A. § 5323), which criminalizes sabotage of computer systems or networks that provide an essential public or private service.

Because each duty attaches to personal data, to a fraud, or to essential-service sabotage rather than to unauthorized computer access as such, none is recorded here; Article 172 is recorded as a privacy instrument instead.

No Puerto Rico-specific database right, terms-of-service enforceability case law, text-and-data-mining exception, or robots.txt-specific rule was located; the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Copyright Act's fair-use doctrine, and general federal law govern unauthorized access and copyright questions for scraping activity touching Puerto Rico.

As of .

Age gating law

Puerto Rico has not enacted an adult-content age-verification law, a social-media minor-access restriction, an app-store age-verification requirement, or an age-appropriate design code. Ley Núm. 246 de 2011 (Ley para la Seguridad, Bienestar y Protección de Menores) governs child-welfare and abuse-and-neglect proceedings and judicial training; its text contains no provision addressing an online service, age verification, or a minor's access to a platform.

Legislative proposals to restrict minors' access to social media, including a House measure that would set sixteen as a minimum age and empower the Negociado de Telecomunicaciones to audit compliance, and a separate Senate proposal for a "Código para el Uso de las Redes Sociales en Menores de Edad", were pending in the Legislative Assembly as of early 2026 and had not been enacted as of the date shown, so neither is recorded as an instrument here.

As of .

Case law

  • No current case law for Puerto Rico AI law
  • No current case law for Puerto Rico privacy law
  • No current case law for Puerto Rico scraping law
  • No current case law for Puerto Rico cybersecurity law
  • No current case law for Puerto Rico communications law
  • No current case law for Puerto Rico content moderation law
  • No current case law for Puerto Rico product and AI liability law
  • No current case law for Puerto Rico digital accessibility law
  • No current case law for Puerto Rico age gating law
  • No current case law for Puerto Rico 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 Puerto Rico 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
48 hours
Incident notificationsecurity law
4 business days
Incident notificationsecurity law
5 business days
Incident notificationsecurity law
7 business days
Breach notificationprivacy law
1 month
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 Puerto Rico

48 hours1 month

Government Cybersecurity Act, incident reporting to the Puerto Rico Innovation and Technology Service

Ley Núm. 40 de 18 de enero de 2024 (Ley de Ciberseguridad del Gobierno de Puerto Rico), Arts. 7(10), 7(11) and 8security law, in force since

The sentences the clocks are read from

As an information and communications technology contracted service provider, share information and notify PRITS and the contracting Agency within 48 hours (no más de cuarenta y ocho horas) of discovering a cybersecurity incident, or a potential incident, that may put at risk the confidential data, software products, firmware or services of the Government or of any natural or legal person.

As an external provider under a cybersecurity services contract, file monthly reports with PRITS on the cybersecurity status of the information systems and any sensitive asset managed on behalf of the Agency, covering the threats detected, threat actors and vulnerabilities, the immediate response and remediation actions, the total number of information security incidents reported to PRITS through the cybersecurity incident reporting platform, and the assessment of the cybersecurity status.

72 hours

Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Industry, investigation of a cybersecurity incident and notice to the Commissioner within 72 hours

Rule No. 108 of the Insurance Code Regulations, Sections 9 and 10, Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Industrysecurity law, in force

The sentences the clocks are read from

If you learn that a cybersecurity incident has occurred or may have occurred, conduct an investigation as soon as possible and prepare a written report, and at a minimum determine whether an incident occurred, assess its nature and scope, identify the nonpublic information that may have been affected, and perform or oversee reasonable measures to restore the security of the affected information systems; if the incident is in a system maintained by a service contractor, complete those steps or confirm and document that the contractor completed them.

Notify the Commissioner as promptly as possible, within 72 hours after it has been determined that a cybersecurity incident has occurred, when you reasonably believe that the nonpublic information involved impacts 250 or more consumers residing in Puerto Rico and the incident impacts you in a manner that requires notice to a government agency, corporation or instrumentality, regulatory agency or supervisory entity under a state or federal law, or has a reasonable probability of causing material harm to consumers residing in Puerto Rico or to a material aspect of your normal operations.

If you act as a reinsurer and the incident involves nonpublic information you use or hold and you have no direct contractual relationship with the affected consumers, notify the affected ceding insurers and the Commissioner of your state of domicile within 72 hours of determining that an incident occurred, or, for an incident at your service contractor, within 72 hours of receiving the contractor's notice.

If you are an insurer or health service organization and your services reached the consumer through a producer or intermediary, notify the producer or intermediary of record of all affected consumers as soon as possible, unless you have no current information about the producer or intermediary for a consumer.

10 days

Ley de Información al Ciudadano sobre la Seguridad de Bancos de Información (data breach notification)

Ley Núm. 111 de 7 de septiembre de 2005, según enmendada; 10 L.P.R.A. §§ 4051-4055privacy law, in force

The sentences the clocks are read from

Notify affected Puerto Rico residents of a security breach of an information bank containing their personal information as expeditiously as possible.

Report the breach to the Department of Consumer Affairs within ten non-extendable days of detecting it.

The law of the United States, which applies in Puerto Rico

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

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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

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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

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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)).

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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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