Strict liability for data breaches?

Strict liability for data breaches?
Mark Rasch, 2006-02-20

A recent case involving a stolen laptop containing 550,000 people's full credit information sheds new night on what "reasonable" protections a company must make to secure its customer data - and what customers need to prove in order to sue for damages.

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Well said. It's a sad state when even the court doesn't consider reasonable care a requirement. Perhaps the judge that made this decision will some day face this delima herself and then have a new perspective on what is reasonable.

Was it reasonable for this contractor to have Account Numbers, SSNs, and Credit Card numbers to make his decisions on loans. Perhaps just the financial numbers would have been reasonable.

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