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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Shameful ruling 2006-02-22
Torquemada

A sad proof that sometimes (well, a bit more often than that...) lawyers, judges and the plethora of people revolving in that world simply don't get it right. Pretty bad for a system who's had more than two thousand years to build up and refine itself...

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