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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? 2006-02-23
Doug
I'm not defending Brazos on this one but your comment is a little unreasonable. How many people do you know that lock their laptops up in a safe at the end of the day? The more appropriate control would be desktop encryption or not having that data on a laptop in the first place. But anyone who w...

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