Laptop (In) Security
I think, at this point, any company that allows employee data to be loaded onto a laptop should be held liable for damages if that information is compromised due to the the theft of the laptop. As some of the above companies did have such a policy, and their employees or auditors violated it, clearly the company must also have an enforcement strategy, not merely a “fig-leaf” policy.
June 18th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
[...] You had to know it was coming after all that. On June 6, the Department of Veterans Affairs was hit with two class action lawsuits related to the theft of an employee’s laptop computer. The theft, reported in late May, held the information of 26.5 million current and former servicemen. The veterans behind the suit are seeking $1,000 for each person whose information was stolen. [...]