(20 ILCS 450/5)
Sec. 5.
Findings.
The General Assembly finds that:
(a) The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a recent study,
discovered that many companies and individuals are regularly selling or
donating
computer hard drives with sensitive information still on them, such as
credit
card numbers, bank and medical records, and personal e-mail.
(b) Illinois currently has no law addressing data security and
removal of data from surplus State-owned computers that are to be (i) disposed
of
by sale, donation, or transfer or (ii) relinquished to a successor executive
administration.
(c) In order to ensure the protection of sensitive information relating to
the
State and its citizens, it is necessary to implement policies to (i) overwrite
all hard
drives of surplus State-owned electronic data processing equipment that are to
be sold, donated, or transferred and (ii) preserve the data on State-owned
electronic data processing
equipment that is to be relinquished to a successor executive administration
for the continuity of government functions.
(Source: P.A. 93-306, eff. 7-23-03.)
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