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Viewpoint: Courts Leave Data Breach Victims Nearly Powerless
So far, 2014 has been the year of the data breach. But despite the rise in privacy violations nationwide, state and federal courts are leaving victims of privacy breaches largely powerless. Recent court decisions addressing data breach cases have resulted in dismissals at the pleadings stage in favor of the facility or organization involved in the breach, slowly eroding consumer privacy protections and rendering the patchwork of applicable U.S. privacy laws toothless…Read More
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