, 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.
Anonymous
If it's encrypted and stored on a laptop, isn't it likely that the decryption mechanism is also on the laptop?
The key and data must be separated for encryption to be useful. Ideally this would be the case, but I see requirements all the time to encrypt data stored in databases...
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