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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: Re: Judge Made Law 2006-03-15
Anonymous
That is a good observation. In particular, while the plaintiff's atorneys apaprently never made the argument, there is in fact a very real and provable damage which would occur to every one of the people who elected to use the 'free credit monitoring' servcie which Brazos offered. Each of the nece...

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