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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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Strict liability for data breaches? 2006-02-21
Stephen T
Sadly the court is wrong here. The precautions taken were inadequate: the theft was reasonabley forseeable, the precautions well publicized and known to anyone conversant with the proper computer security and relatively inexpensive, and the precautions could only be taken by the defendant not the ...

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