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Judge: Firm not negligent in failure to encrypt data (fwd)
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:54:41 -0500 (EST)
Forwarded from another mailing list. With 550,000 customers apparently contacted... has anyone heard of this incident before now? Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:31:55 -0500 Subject: Judge: Firm not negligent in failure to encrypt data http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-6039645.html A federal court has thrown out a lawsuit that accused a student-loan provider of negligence in failing to encrypt a customer database that was subsequently stolen. Stacy Lawton Guin, a customer of Brazos Higher Education Service, sued the corporation on the grounds that encryption should be used as a routine security precaution. But U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle in Minnesota dismissed the case last week, saying Brazos had a written security policy and other "proper safeguards" for customers' information and that it acted "with reasonable care" even without encrypting the database. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss mailing list Dataloss () attrition org https://attrition.org/mailman/listinfo/dataloss
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