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Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure - Criminally Liable?
From: "Marcus Dolce" <marcus.dolce () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:29:11 -0500
Spot on, in my opinion. It is not always what it is...but what is seems to be. perception is reality... etc, etc. That is why this entire topic needs to become as publicized as possible. The more people like us continue to create awareness around the loopholes and caveats of the laws that are out, the better. Just like most things in life, it seems that the real fight, and progress to be made in all of this, is much faster on the legal front...as opposed to the technical front. MD On 1/10/07, Donald Aplin <DAplin () bna com> wrote:
The vast majority of the 34 state-enacted data breach consumer notification laws only require notice if there is a breach of unencrypted data. A few of the newer ones added that it's still a covered breach if the encryption key goes missing at the same time encrypted data is lost. Perhaps more important are the risk of harm threshold provisions in many of the laws which do not require notification if after a "reasonable" investigation by the covered entity there is a determination that there was no actual damage or any reasonable risk of future harm done by the breach (this is consistent with the court examinations of breaches in which they pretty much uniformly do not consider the threat of potential ID theft to be actual damages). In short, the fox gets to guard the henhouse. Donald G. Aplin Legal Editor BNA's Privacy & Security Law Report (202) 452-4688 _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tracking more than 143 million compromised records in 530 incidents over 7 years.
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Current thread:
- Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure - Criminally Liable? ray . hawkins (Jan 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure - Criminally Liable? Jeff Walker (Jan 10)
- Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure - Criminally Liable? Donald Aplin (Jan 10)
- Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure - Criminally Liable? George Toft (Jan 11)
- Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure - Criminally Liable? Marcus Dolce (Jan 11)
- Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure - Criminally Liable? Donald Aplin (Jan 10)
- Re: They Take it Seriously? Oh, Sure - Criminally Liable? DAIL, ANDY (Jan 11)