[Robert357]

There are some stiff laws on notifying people when a data security breach occurs. These laws have been extended from financial institutions to most businesses that have highly important personal data.

I keep wondering how many TurboTax E-filings were intercepted by the NSA and if TurboTax has notified people that sensitive financial data has been intercepted during a data breach?

I think that the class action law suits should be filed with a big net and include the federal government as an additional party. My feeling is that if enough corporations get hauled into court for a variety of infractions (failure to provide notice under data security breach laws, etc.) that the pressure on the government to reign in NSA will increase astronomically.

If nothing else, there is going to be a huge foreign backlash and this may be the death knell of cloud computing and cloud storage.

[thecodont]

There are some stiff laws on notifying people when a data security breach occurs. These laws have been extended from financial institutions to most businesses that have highly important personal data.

Yes, how many of us will be beneficiaries of a massive class action lawsuit, and get a free coupon for something as compensation? (only sort of joking here)