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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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Re: Strict liability for data breaches? 2006-02-22
Anonymous
I think you are forgetting that $50 worth of encryption wouldn't solve the problem of the means of decryption laying around on the laptop, with the user most likely having the password in a file somewhere on the laptop.

The real solution is to not allow employees and contractors to have a copy of...

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