Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 487N - Security Breach of Personal Information

• Act: means the Clean Water Act (formally referred to as the Federal Water Pollution Control Act or Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972), P. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Administrator: means the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Air pollution: means the presence in the outdoor air of substances in quantities and for durations which may endanger human health or welfare, plant or animal life, or property or which may unreasonably interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property throughout the State and in such areas of the State as are affected thereby, but excludes all aspects of employer-employee relationships as to health and safety hazards. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Business: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, association, or other group, however organized, and whether or not organized to operate at a profit. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 487N-1
• Coastal waters: means all waters surrounding the islands of the State from the coast of any island to a point three miles seaward from the coast, and, in the case of streams, rivers, and drainage ditches, to a point three miles seaward from their point of discharge into the sea and includes those brackish waters, fresh waters, and salt waters that are subject to the ebb and flow of the tide. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Council: means the information privacy and security council established under section 487N-5. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 487N-1
• Council: means the compliance advisory council. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Effluent: means any substance discharged into state waters, publicly owned treatment works, or sewerage systems, including, but not limited to, sewage, waste, garbage, feculent matter, offal, filth, refuse, any animal, mineral, or vegetable matter or substance, and any liquid, gaseous, or solid substances. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Emission: means the act of releasing or discharging air pollutants into the ambient air from any source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• encrypted: means the use of an algorithmic process to transform data into a form in which the data is rendered unreadable or unusable without the use of a confidential process or key. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 487N-1
• EPA: means the United States Environmental Protection Agency. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Federal Reserve System: The central bank of the United States. The Fed, as it is commonly called, regulates the U.S. monetary and financial system. The Federal Reserve System is composed of a central governmental agency in Washington, D.C. (the Board of Governors) and twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks in major cities throughout the United States. ^{Source: OCC}
• Government agency: means any department, division, board, commission, public corporation, or other agency or instrumentality of the State or of any county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 487N-1
• Gray water: means any untreated wastewater that has not come into contact with toilet waste. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Party: means each person or agency named as party or properly entitled to be a party in any court or agency proceeding. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Permit: means written authorization from the director to discharge waste or to construct, modify, or operate any water pollution source. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Person: means any individual, partnership, firm, association, public or private corporation, federal agency, the State or any of its political subdivisions, trust, estate, or any other legal entity. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Person: means any individual, firm, corporation, association, partnership, consortium, joint venture, commercial entity, state, county, commission, political subdivision of the State, or, to the extent they are subject to this chapter, the United States or any interstate body. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Personal information: means an individual's first name or first initial and last name in combination with any one or more of the following data elements, when either the name or the data elements are not encrypted:

  (1) Social security number;

  (2) Driver's license number or Hawaii identification card number; or

  (3) Account number, credit or debit card number, access code, or password that would permit access to an individual's financial account. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 487N-1

• Pollution: means water pollution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Records: means any material on which written, drawn, spoken, visual, or electromagnetic information is recorded or preserved, regardless of physical form or characteristics. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 487N-1
• Security breach: means an incident of unauthorized access to and acquisition of unencrypted or unredacted records or data containing personal information where illegal use of the personal information has occurred, or is reasonably likely to occur and that creates a risk of harm to a person. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 487N-1
• Sewage sludge: means any solid, semi-solid, or liquid residue removed during the treatment of municipal wastewater or domestic sewage. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Small business ombudsman: means the small business ombudsman for air pollution control established pursuant to section 342B-63. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342B-1
• Standard of performance: means a standard for the control of the discharge of water pollutants which reflects the greatest degree of effluent reduction which the director determines to be achievable through application of the best demonstrated control technology, processes, operating methods, or other alternatives, including, where practicable, a standard permitting no discharge of water pollutants. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• State waters: means all waters, fresh, brackish, or salt, around and within the State, including but not limited to coastal waters, wetlands, streams, rivers, drainage ditches, ponds, reservoirs, canals, ground waters, and lakes; provided that drainage ditches, ponds, and reservoirs required as a part of a water pollution control system are excluded. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Territorial seas: means the belt of the seas measured from the line of ordinary low water along that portion of the coast that is in direct contact with the open sea and the line marking the seaward limit of inland waters, and extending seaward a distance of three miles. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Treatment works: means any plant or other facility used for the purpose of controlling water pollution. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• waste: means any liquid, gaseous, and solid substance, whether treated or not, and whether or not it pollutes or tends to pollute state waters, and "waste" excludes industrial and agricultural substances that are not combined with substances from humans or household operations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• wastewater: means any liquid "waste" as used above, whether treated or not. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1
• Water pollution: means :
  (1) Such contamination or other alteration of the physical, chemical, or biological properties of any state waters, including change in temperature, taste, color, turbidity, or odor of the waters, or
  (2) Such discharge of any liquid, gaseous, solid, radioactive, or other substances into any state waters,

  as will or is likely to create a nuisance or render such waters unreasonably harmful, detrimental, or injurious to public health, safety, or welfare, including harm, detriment, or injury to public water supplies, fish and aquatic life and wildlife, recreational purposes and agricultural and industrial research and scientific uses of such waters or as will or is likely to violate any water quality standards, effluent standards, treatment and pretreatment standards, or standards of performance for new sources adopted by the department. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1

• Water quality standards: means provisions of state law that provide for a designated use or designated uses for state waters and water quality criteria for the waters based upon these uses. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 342D-1