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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? 2006-02-23
Anonymous
If people don't want activist judges, don't expect judges to make up laws that don't exist.

Plaintiff chose whom to sue and what theories to use. Plaintiff chose to sue the company, not the guy with the laptop who could have encrypted. And plaintiff chose to use two chief theories: (1) that Bra...

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